Andrew Clark
Lecturer in Psychology
Psychology
Brunel University
Uxbridge, UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Biography
Qualifications
- PhD Psychology (McMaster)
- BSc Animal Behaviour (University of Toronto)
Personal Biography
I did my undergraduate degree in Animal Behaviour at the University of Toronto from 1995 - 1999. My PhD (2000 - 2005) was completed in the psychology department at McMaster University under the supervision of Martin Daly and Margo Wilson. I then moved (back) to the UK to do a post-doc at the University of Bristol until 2009, and took up my current position here at Brunel in 2010.Research
Research Overview
I am broadly interested in the process of sexual selection and in a variety of topics that typically fall within its purview, including mating systems, sexual conflict, direct and indirect sexual competition, mating strategies, mating effort allocation and mechanisms of mate preference and choice.
I am also interested in social consequences of human mate choice, with the prediction that such consequences may prove to be important in regulating the strength and nature of choice, and in developing predictive models of human mate preference and mating tactics.
Current Projects
Leverhulme Trust
Dynamic beauty: studying social impressions with realistic stimuli
£151,000
December 2010 – December 2012
Andrew Clark (CI)
Teaching
Undergraduate Programmes
Module convenor
- Statistics (Yr 1)
Module contributor
- Evolutionary Psychology (Yr 3)
- Advanced Data Analysis (Yr 2)
Postgraduate Programmes
Module convenor
- Evolutionary Biology and Research Methods
Administration
- Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
External Activity
- Human Behavior and Evolution Society Member
- Review Editor, Frontiers in Evolutionary Psychology journal
Publications
Publications
Journal Papers
(2012) Scott, IML., Clark, AP., Boothroyd, LG. and Penton-Voak, IS., Do men’s faces really signal heritable immunocompetence?, Behavioral Ecology Online Paper
(2011) Brooks, R., Scott, IM., Maklakov, AA., Kasumovic, MM., Clark, AP. and Penton-Voak, IS., National income inequality predicts women's preferences for masculinized faces better than health does, Proceedings B: Biological Sciences 278 (1707) : 810- 812
(2010) Clark, AP., Broader and brighter empathic spotlights-a review of "Mothers and others: the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding", EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR 31 (5) : 381- 382
(2010) Scott, IM., Pound, N., Stephen, ID., Clark, AP. and Penton-Voak, IS., Does masculinity matter? The contribution of masculine face shape to male attractiveness in humans, PLoS One 5 (10) : e13585 Download publication
(2010) Morrison, ER., Clark, AP., Tiddeman, BP. and Penton-Voak, IS., Manipulating shape cues in dynamic human faces: Sexual dimorphism is preferred in female but not male faces, Ethology 116 (12) : 1234- 1243
(2009) Morrison, ER., Clark, AP., Gralewski, L., Campbell, N. and Penton-Voak, IS., Women's Probability of Conception Is Associated with their Preference for Flirtatious but not Masculine Facial Movement, Archives of Sexual Behavior 1- 8
(2008) Clark, AP., Attracting Interest: Dynamic Displays of Proceptivity Increase the Attractiveness of Men and Women, EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY 6 (4) : 563- 574
(2007) Benton, CP., Etchells, PJ., Porter, G., Clark, AP., Penton-Voak, IS. and Nikolov, SG., Turning the other cheek: The viewpoint dependence of facial expression after-effects, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274 (1622) : 2131- 2137
(2007) Mishra, S., Clark, A. and Daly, M., One woman's behavior affects the attractiveness of others, Evolution and Human Behavior 28 (2) : 145- 149
(2006) Clark, AP., Are the correlates of sociosexuality different for men and women?, Personality and Individual Differences 41 (7) : 1321- 1327
(2005) Clark, A. and Daly, M., What is the significance of cross-national variability in sociosexuality?, BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES 28 (2) : 280- +
(2005) Bussière, LF., Clark, AP. and Gwynne, DT., Precopulatory choice for cues of material benefits in tree crickets, Behavioral Ecology 16 (1) : 255- 259
(2004) Sakaluk, SK., Campbell, MTH., Clark, AP., Johnson, JC. and Keorpes, PA., Hemolymph loss during nuptial feeding constrains male mating success in sagebrush crickets, Behavioral Ecology 15 (5) : 845- 849
(2004) Clark, AP., Self-perceived attractiveness and masculinization predict women's sociosexuality, Evolution and Human Behavior 25 (2) : 113- 124
(2003) MacDougall-Shackleton, SA., Hernandez, AM., Valyear, KF. and Clark, AP., Photostimulation induces rapid growth of song-control brain regions in male and female chickadees (Poecile atricapilla), Neuroscience Letters 340 (3) : 165- 168
(2003) MacDougall-Shackleton, SA., Sherry, DF., Clark, AP., Pinkus, R. and Hernandez, AM., Photoperiodic regulation of food storing and hippocampus volume in black-capped chickadees, Poecile atricapillus, Animal Behaviour 65 (4) : 805- 812
