Nicholas Pound
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Psychology
Brunel University
Uxbridge, UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Biography
Qualifications
- PhD Psychology (McMaster)
- BSc (Hons) Psychology (Leeds)
Personal Biography
After a BSc in Psychology at the University of Leeds I completed my PhD at McMaster University in Canada under the supervision of Martin Daly and Margo Wilson. Following periods of postdoctoral work in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Liverpool and the University of East Anglia working with Matt Gage, I worked briefly at the University of Stirling with Ian Penton-Voak before joining the Department of Psychology at Brunel in 2004.
Research
Research Overview
Much of my research has focused on social and psychological influences on male reproductive physiology and sexual behaviour. Recently, I’ve begun to use traditional anthropometric and geometric morphometric techniques to examine associations between facial morphology, health and endocrine status and also to examine what facial cues people use to form judgments of personality in others. Additionally, I use various techniques to study male competitiveness, risk-sensitivity, impulsiveness and violence.
Member, Centre for Culture & Evolutionary Psychology
Member, Centre for Cognition & Neuroimaging
Teaching
Undergraduate Programmes
Module convenor
- Drugs, Hormones & the Brain
Postgraduate Programmes
Programme convenor
- MSc Evolutionary Psychology
Module convenor
- Animal Behaviour & Behavioural Ecology
- Dissertation in Evolutionary Psychology
Module contributor
- Evolutionary Psychology
Administration
- Psychology Department Research / REF Coordinator
External Activity
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) Associate
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Editorial Board for Evolutionary Psychology
- Editorial Board for Frontiers in Evolutionary Psychology
Publications
Publications
Journal Papers
(2013) Price, ME., Pound, N., Dunn, J., Hopkins, S. and Kang, J., Body shape preferences: Associations with rater body shape and sociosexuality, PLOS ONE 8 (1) : e52532
(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
(2012) Sell, A., Hone, L. and Pound, N., The importance of physical strength to human males, Human Nature: an interdisciplinary biosocial perspective
(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
(2009) Pound, N., Penton-Voak, IS. and Surridge, AK., Testosterone responses to competition in men are related to facial masculinity, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 (1654) : 153- 159 Download publication
(2009) Pound, N., Daly, M. and Wilson, M., There's no contest: Human sex differences are sexually selected, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32 (3-4) : 286- 287 Download publication
(2008) Brown, WM., Price, ME., Kang, J., Pound, N., Zhao, Y. and Yu, H., Fluctuating asymmetry and preferences for sex-typical bodily characteristics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105 (35) : 12938- 12943 Download publication
(2007) Penton-Voak, IS., Cahill, S., Pound, N., Kempe, V., Schaeffler, S. and Schaeffler, F., Male facial attractiveness, perceived personality, and child-directed speech, Evolution and Human Behavior 28 (4) : 253- 259
(2007) Pound, N., Penton-Voak, IS. and Brown, WM., Facial symmetry is positively associated with self-reported extraversion, Personality and Individual Differences 43 (6) : 1572- 1582 Download publication
(2006) Penton-Voak, IS., Pound, N., Little, AC. and Perrett, DI., Personality judgments from natural and composite facial images: More evidence for a "kernel of truth" in social perception, Social Cognition 24 (5) : 607- 640
(2005) Pound, N., Goetz, AT. and Shackelford, TK., Psychological and physiological adaptations to sperm competition in humans, Review of General Psychology 9 (3) : 228- 248 Download publication
(2005) Pound, N. and Josephson, SC., What we can and can’t learn about biology from feminism, Bioscience 55 (2) : 177- 178 Download publication
(2004) Pound, N. and Gage, M., Prudent sperm allocation in Norway rats, Rattus norvegicus: A mammalian model of adaptive ejaculate adjustment, Animal Behaviour 68 (4) : 819- 823
(2002) Pound, N., Anis Shaikh, M., Javed, M. and Ruberto, C., Duration of sexual arousal predicts semen parameters for masturbatory ejaculates, Physiology & Behavior 76 (4-5) : 685- 689
(2002) Pound, N., Male interest in visual cues of sperm competition risk, Evolution and Human Behavior 23 (6) : 443- 466
(2000) Pound, N. and Daly, M., Functional significance of human female orgasm still hypothetical, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (4) : 620- 621 Download publication
(1999) Pound, N., Effects of morphine on electrically evoked contractions of the vas deferens in two congeneric rodent species differing in sperm competition intensity, Proceedings: Biological Sciences 266 (1430) : 1755- 1758
Book Chapters
(2009) Wilson, M., Daly, M. and Pound, N., Sex Differences and Intrasexual Variation in Competitive Confrontation and Risk Taking: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective. In: Arnold, AP., Pfaff, DW. and Rubin, RT. eds. Hormones, Brain and Behavior. San Diego : Academic Press (5) : 2825- 2852
(2009) Wilson, M., Daly, M. and Pound, N., Sex Differences in Competitive Confrontation and Risk-taking. In: Rubin, RH. and Pfaff, DW. eds. Hormone/Behavior Relations of Clinical Importance. Academic Press 311- 338
(2006) Pound, N., Shackelford, TK. and Goetz, AT., Sperm Competition in Humans. In: Shackelford, TK. and Pound, N. eds. Sperm Competition in Humans: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Springer 3- 31
(2005) Shackelford, TK., Pound, N., Goetz, AT. and LaMunyon, CW., Female Infidelity and Sperm Competition. In: Buss, DM. ed. The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley 372- 393
(2002) Wilson, M., Daly, M. and Pound, N., An evolutionary psychological perspective on the modulation of competitive confrontation and risk-taking. In: Pfaff, DW., Arnold, AP., Etgen, AM., Fahrbach, SE. and Rubin, RT. eds. Hormones, brain and behavior. Academic Press (5) : 381- 408
Books
(2006) Shackelford, TK. and Pound, N., Sperm Competition in Humans: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Springer
