David Perrett

David Perrett is the Bishop Wardlaw Professor at the School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews. His research focuses on facial recognition, attractiveness, health cues, mate choice, and the use of computer graphics to study social perception.

Key Research Areas:

• Facial cues to health and attractiveness
• Impact of diet (fruit/vegetable intake) on skin coloration
• Sexual dimorphism and leadership perception
• Cross-cultural studies on facial preferences
• Emotion recognition and deception detection

Recent Articles Trends explore facial leadership validation, cross-cultural body preferences, and emotion-expression dynamics. His work bridges psychology, neuroscience, and public health with applications to SDGs.

Scientific Recognition:

• British Academy Wolfson Research Professorship (2009)
• Experimental Psychology Society Mid Career Prize (2007)
• Fellow of the British Academy (2005)
• British Psychological Society member (2005)

He has supervised numerous thesis projects, including work on body composition, leadership perception, and facial aesthetics. His lab, the Perception Lab, collaborates globally on health, social cues, and evolutionary psychology.