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Dr. Amanda Hahn is an Affiliate researcher in the School of Psychology & Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow, with extensive research contributions in evolutionary psychology and facial perception. Her work focuses on how hormonal factors influence social perception, mate selection, and attractiveness judgments.
Dr. Hahn's research interests center on evolutionary approaches to human social behavior, particularly examining how hormonal fluctuations affect facial perception and mate preferences. Her work explores the relationship between physical characteristics (especially facial features) and underlying biological factors, investigating whether facial cues reliably signal health, fertility, or other traits relevant to mate selection. She employs both theoretical frameworks and data-driven approaches to understand attractiveness perception across different cultural contexts, with notable studies on Chinese participants' social judgments of Chinese faces.
Her publication record demonstrates consistent research activity from 2012 through 2022, primarily investigating hormonal correlates of social perception, facial attractiveness, and mate preferences. Dr. Hahn frequently collaborates with prominent researchers in the field, particularly Benedict Jones and Lisa DeBruine, typically serving as second or third author on collaborative papers.
Dr. Hahn's research has been published in high-impact journals including Evolution and Human Behavior, Psychoneuroendocrinology, PLoS ONE, and Trends in Cognitive Sciences, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of her work spanning psychology, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology.
Her research methodology typically involves experimental designs measuring social judgments of facial stimuli, hormonal assays, and statistical analyses of relationships between biological factors and perceptual judgments. She has contributed to important debates in evolutionary psychology regarding whether facial features reliably signal underlying biological qualities relevant to mate selection.
