David Perrett

{{Short description|British psychologist}}

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| birth_name = David Ian Perrett

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David Ian Perrett (born 11 April 1954‘PERRETT, Prof. David Ian’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U56117, accessed 11 May 2013]) is a professor of psychology at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he leads the Perception Lab. The main focus in his team's research is on face perception, including facial cues to health,{{cite journal|last=Stephen|first=Ian D. |author2=Coetzee, Vinet |author3=Perrett, David I.|title=Carotenoid and melanin pigment coloration affect perceived human health|journal=Evolution and Human Behavior|year=2011|volume=32|issue=3|pages=216–227|doi=10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.09.003}} effects of physiological conditions on facial appearance, and facial preferences in social settings such as trust games and mate choice.[http://psy.st-andrews.ac.uk/people/lect/dp.shtml Perrett's profile on the University of St Andrews School of Psychology website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110620151330/http://psy.st-andrews.ac.uk/people/lect/dp.shtml |date=2011-06-20 }} He has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles,[https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/david-ian-perrett(6a987feb-d99f-4e51-84ed-5f6d87c19dbc)/researchoutput.html David Ian Perrett Research Publications] many of which appearing in leading scientific journals such as the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B—Biological Sciences,{{cite journal |doi=10.1098/rspb.2010.1678 |title=Evidence for the stress-linked immunocompetence handicap hypothesis in human male faces |year=2010 |last1=Moore |first1=F. R. |last2=Cornwell |first2=R. E. |last3=Law Smith |first3=M. J. |last4=Al Dujaili |first4=E. A. S. |last5=Sharp |first5=M. |last6=Perrett |first6=D. I. |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=278 |issue=1706 |pages=774–780|pmc=3030856 |pmid=20843854}} Psychological Science,{{cite journal |doi=10.1177/0956797610362647 |title=Valid Facial Cues to Cooperation and Trust: Male Facial Width and Trustworthiness |year=2010 |last1=Stirrat |first1=M. |last2=Perrett |first2=D.I. |journal=Psychological Science |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=349–354 |pmid=20424067|s2cid=23420343 }} and Nature.{{cite journal |doi=10.1038/29772 |year=1998 |last1=Perrett |first1=D. I. |last2=Lee |first2=K. J. |last3=Penton-Voak |first3=I. |last4=Rowland |first4=D. |last5=Yoshikawa |first5=S. |last6=Burt |first6=D. M. |last7=Henzi |first7=S. P. |last8=Castles |first8=D. L. |last9=Akamatsu |first9=S. |journal=Nature |volume=394 |issue=6696 |pages=884–887 |pmid=9732869 |title=Effects of sexual dimorphism on facial attractiveness |bibcode=1998Natur.394..884P |s2cid=204999982 }}

Perrett received the British Psychological Society President's Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge in 2000,[http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/archive/archive_home.cfm?volumeID=15&editionID=76&ArticleID=352 Putting beauty back in the eye of the beholder], The Psychologist, January 2002, Award Article for BPS President's Award. the Golden Brain Award of Minerva Foundation in 2002,[http://brain.berkeley.edu/the-golden-brains/press/perrett-press.html Vision Scientist Wins Golden Brain Award for Research Showing How the Brain Interprets Faces] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718223401/http://brain.berkeley.edu/the-golden-brains/press/perrett-press.html |date=2011-07-18 }}, The Minerva Foundation. the Experimental Psychology Society Mid-Career prize (2008),{{cite web |url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~mwo/Papers/Perret_etal_QJEP_2009.pdf |title=EPS Mid-Career Award 2008 Seeing the future: Natural image sequences produce "anticipatory" neuronal activity and bias perceptual report |access-date=2011-08-18}} and a British Academy Wolfson Research Professorship (2009–2012).[http://www.wolfson.org.uk/grant-applicants/education/research-prof/ British Academy Wolfson Research Professorships 2009] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930044544/http://www.wolfson.org.uk/grant-applicants/education/research-prof/ |date=2011-09-30 }}

Perrett received a BSc in psychology from the University of St Andrews in 1976.{{cite journal |last1=Tiddeman |first1=Bernard |last2=Burt |first2=Michael |last3=Perrett |first3=David |title=Prototyping and transforming facial features for perception research |journal=IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications |date=2001 |volume=21 |issue=5 |pages=42–50 |doi=10.1109/38.946630 |hdl=10023/1596 |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/946630 |access-date=26 February 2023|hdl-access=free }} Perrett received a DPhil in psychology from Oxford University in 1981, under Edmund Rolls.{{cite journal |last1=Perrett |first1=David |title=Charlie Gross: An inspiration |journal=Progress in Neurobiology |date=2020 |volume=195 |page=101928 |doi=10.1016/j.pneurobio.2020.101928 |pmid=33075448 |hdl=10023/24150 |s2cid=222814014 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301008220301830 |access-date=26 February 2023|hdl-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=Spillmann |first1=Lothar |title=Re-viewing 25 years of ECVP—A personal view |journal=Perception |date=2003 |volume=32 |issue=7 |pages=777–791 |doi=10.1068/p5112 |pmid=12974564 |s2cid=26492469 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/p5112 |access-date=26 February 2023}}