Isabel Scott
Lecturer
Psychology
Brunel University
Uxbridge, UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Biography
Qualifications
- PhD, University of Bristol
Personal Biography
I have a background in maths, philosophy and biological anthropology, which I studied at Oxford, Kings College London, and University College London. My doctoral research was conducted in the social cognition group at the University of Bristol under the supervision of Ian Penton-Voak (experimental psychology), and I recently completed a career development fellowship (ESRC) supervised by Mhairi Gibson (Bristol, biological anthropology).Research
Research Overview
My research applies an evolutionary, cross-cultural perspective to existing questions in the field of social cognition, such as why individuals differ in their sexual preferences, or in their norms about resource distribution. I am interested in how ancestrally relevant features of the environment, such as social inequality, hunger and disease, contribute to modern variation in these aspects of social cognition.
Current Projects
Leverhulme Trust
Demography and mate choice
I. Scott (researcher) with Ian Penton-Voak, University of Bristol
An investigation of hunger and moral cognition
I.Scott (researcher) with Mhairi Gibson, University of Bristol
Recently Completed Projects
ESRC
Inter and intra group variation in mate choice: a cross-cultural investigation of face preferences
£70,784.03
Jan – Dec 2011
Isabel Scott (PI)
Teaching
Postgraduate Programmes
Module contributor
- Evolutionary Biology and Research Methods
Administration
- Convener, Psychology Research Participation Pool
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
(2012) Stephen, ID., Scott, IML., Coetzee, V., Pound, N., Perrett, DI. and Penton-Voak, IS., Cross-cultural effects of color, but not morphological masculinity, on perceived attractiveness of men's faces, Evolution and Human Behavior 33 (4) : 260- 267 Download publication
(2011) Scott, IM. and Penton-Voak, IS., The validity of composite photographs for assessing masculinity preferences., Perception 40 (3) : 323- 331 Download publication
(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) 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
(2008) Scott, I., Swami, V., Josephson, SC. and Penton-Voak, IS., Context-dependent preferences for facial dimorphism in a rural Malaysian population, Evolution and Human Behavior 29 (4) : 289- 296
