Staff
Dr Lynda Boothroyd, BA MSc PhD
Member of the Centre for Developmental Psychology
Member of the Centre for the Coevolution of Biology and Culture
Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Contact details
Tel: 0191 334 3289
Email: l.g.boothroyd (at) dur.ac.uk
Indicators of Esteem
- 2012: Conference organiser: EHBEA 2012: Member of (4 person) local committee for the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association's annual meeting
Research Groups
Research Interests
- Attraction
- Evolutionary Social and Developmental Psychology
- Father absence theory
Teaching Areas
- Introduction to Social and Developmental Psychology (Queen's Campus)
- The Evolution of Human Behaviour
Selected Publications
Journal papers: academic
- Evans, E.H., Tovee, M.T., Boothroyd, L.G. & Drewett, R. (2013). Body dissatisfaction and disordered eating attitudes in 7 to 11-year-old girls: testing a sociocultural model. Body Image 10(1): 8-15.
- Scott, I.M.L., Clark, A.P., Boothroyd, L.G. & Penton-Voak, I.S. (2012). Do men’s faces really signal heritable immunocompetence?. Behavioral Ecology
- Gray, Alan W. & Boothroyd, Lynda G. (2012). Female facial appearance and health. Evolutionary Psychology 10(1): 66-77
- Boothroyd, L.G., Tovee, M.T. & Pollett, T. (2012). Visual Diet versus Associative Learning as Mechanisms of Change in Body Size Preferences. PLoS ONE 7(11): e48691.
- Boothroyd, L. G., Cross, C. P., Gray, A. W., Coombes, C. & Gregson-Curtis, K. (2011). Perceiving the facial correlates of sociosexuality: Further evidence. Personality and Individual Differences 50(3): 422-425.
- Re, D.E., Coetzee, V., Xiao, D.K., Buls, D., Tiddeman, B.P., Boothroyd, L.G. & Perrett, D.I. (2011). Viewing heavy bodies enhances preferences for facial adiposity. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 9: 295-308
- Jones, B.C., Boothroyd, L.G., Feinberg, D.R. & DeBruine, L. (2010). Age at menarche predicts individual differences in women’s preferences for masculinized male voices in adulthood. Personality and Individual Differences 48(7): 860-863.
- Boothroyd, Lynda G, Lawson, Jamie F & Burt, D Michael (2009). Testing immuncompetence explanations of male facial masculinity. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 7(1): 65-81.
- Boothroyd, L.G., Jones, B.C., Burt, D.M., DeBruine, L.M. & Perrett, D.I. (2008). Facial correlates of sociosexuality. Evolution & Human Behavior 29(3): 211-218.
- Boothroyd, L.G. & Perrett, D.I. (2008). Father absence, parent-daughter relationships and partner preferences. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 6(3): 187-205.
- Pawlowski, B., Boothroyd, L.G., Perrett, D.I. & Kluska, S. (2008). Is female attractiveness related to final reproductive success? 32: 457-460
- Wiszewska, A., Pawlowski, B. & Boothroyd, L.G. (2007). Father-daughter relationship as a moderator of sexual imprinting: a facialmetric study. Evolution & Human Behavior 28(4): 248-252
- Boothroyd, L.G., Jones, B.C., Burt, D.M. & Perrett, D.I. (2007). Partner characteristics associated with masculinity, health and maturity in male faces. Personality and Individual Differences 43(5): 1161-1173.
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Media Contacts
Available for media contact about:
- Evolution: The way in which evolution has shaped what kind of faces we are attracted to.
- Perception / attractiveness: The way in which evolution has shaped what kind of faces we are attracted to.
- Relationships: The way in which evolution has shaped what kind of faces we are attracted to.
- Perception / attractiveness: The development of facial preferences in children and adults
- Evolution: Family influences of puberty and sexual development.
- Psychology: Family influences of puberty and sexual development.
- Psychology: The relationship bewteen hormones (such as testosterone), behaviour and physical traits in men and women
- Aggression: The relationship bewteen hormones (such as testosterone), behaviour and physical traits in men and women
- Gender differences: The relationship bewteen hormones (such as testosterone), behaviour and physical traits in men and women