Farid Pazhoohi

My research integrates the fields of cognitive, neuro, and social psychology, relying on several experimental paradigms including eye-tracking and virtual reality.

Research Interests:

• Social Cognition
• Visual Perception and Attention
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Evolutionary Social Psychology
• Human Ethology
• Human Behavioral Ecology

Works

2020+

• Pazhoohi, F., & Kingstone, A. (2022). Preferred Distance from Camera for Online Interactions and its Relation with Individual Differences in Pathogen Sensitivity. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
• Pazhoohi, F., Garza, R., & Kingstone, A. (2022). The interacting effects of height and shoulder to hip ratio on perceptions of attractiveness, masculinity, and fighting ability: experimental design and ecological validity considerations. Archives of Sexual Behavior.
• Kowal et al. (including Pazhoohi, F.). (2022). Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries. Evolution & Human Behavior.
• Pazhoohi, F., Capozzi, F., & Kingstone, A. (2022). Physical disabilities in romantic partners: Behavioral immune system theory fails to explain why women and men differ in their perceptions of potential romantic partners who are physically disabled. Personality and Individual Differences, 198, 111821.
• DeLecce, T., Pazhoohi, F., Szala, A., & Shackelford, T. (2022). Extreme metal guitar skill: A case of intrasexual competition, intersexual selection, or byproduct? Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences.
• Pazhoohi, F., & Kingstone, A. (2022). Unattractive faces are more attractive when the bottom-half is masked, an effect that reverses when the top-half is concealed. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7(1), 1-10.
• Pazhoohi, F., Jacobs, O., & Kingstone, A. (2022). Contrapposto Pose Influences Perceptions of Attractiveness, Masculinity, and Dynamicity of Male Statues from Antiquity. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 8(1), 46-55.
• Pazhoohi, F., Garza, R., & Kingstone, A. (2022). Sexual Receptivity Signal of Lordosis Posture and Intra-Sexual Competition in Women. Sexes, 3(1), 59-67.
• Pazhoohi, F. (2022). Parental Investment Theory. In T. Shackelford (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology, pp. 137-159). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Pazhoohi, F. & Kingstone, A. (2022). On the attractiveness of the eyelash length: a previously uninvestigated indicator of beauty. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 16(2), 176–180.
• Pazhoohi, F. & Kingstone, A. (2022). Larger vehicles are perceived as more aggressive, angry, dominant, and masculine. Current Psychology,41, 4195–4199.
• Pazhoohi, F., Capozzi, F., & Kingstone, A. (2021). Physical disability affects women’s, but not men’s perception of opposite sex attractiveness. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 788287.
• Pazhoohi, F., Forby, L., & Kingstone, A. (2021). Facial masks affect emotion recognition in general population and autistic individuals. PLOS ONE, 16(9): e0257740.
• Pazhoohi, F., Luna, K., Bischof, W. B., & Kingstone, A. (2021). A life history approach to artistic endeavors and production: The case of metal music. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 8(2), 189-195.
• Marcinkowska et al., (including Pazhoohi, F.). (2021). An exploratory, cross-cultural study on perception of putative cyclical changes in facial fertility cues. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-9.
• Garza, R., Pazhoohi, F., Byrd-Craven, J. (2021). Women’s perceptions of breast size, ptosis, and intermammary distance: Does breast morphology play a role in women’s intrasexual competition? Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences.
• Pazhoohi, F. & Kingstone, A. (2021). Associations of Political Orientation, Xenophobia, Right-Wing Authoritarianism, and Concern of COVID-19: Cognitive Responses to An Actual Pathogen Threat. Personality and Individual Differences, 182, 111081.
• Garza, R., Pazhoohi, F., Byrd-Craven, J. (2021). Women’s preferences for strong men under perceived harsh versus safe ecological conditions. Evolutionary Psychology, 19(3), 14747049211032351.
• Walter et al. (including Pazhoohi, F.). (2021). Sex Differences in Human Mate Preferences Vary Across Sex Ratios. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288(1955), 20211115.
• Pazhoohi, F. (in press). Cultural differences and similarities in the nature of infidelity. In T. DeLecce, & T. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Infidelity. Oxford University Press.
• Fiala, V., Třebický, V., Pazhoohi, F., Leongómez, J. D., Tureček, P., Saribay, S. A., Akoko, R. M., & Kleisner, K. (2021). Facial attractiveness and preference of sexual dimorphism: A comparison across five populations. Evolutionary Human Sciences.
• Sorokowska et al. (including Pazhoohi, F.). (2021). Affective interpersonal touch: a cross-cultural perspective. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
• Pazhoohi, F., Choi, G., & Kingstone, A. (2021). Larger Distances from Larger Vehicles: Effect of Vehicle Size, Viewing Side, And Their Facia on Comfort Distance in Virtual Reality. Australian Journal of Psychology, 73(2), 179-187.
• Pazhoohi, F. & Kingstone, A. (2021). The Effect of Movie Frame Rate on Viewer Preference: An Eye Tracking Study. Augmented Human Research, 6, 2.
• Jacquet*, P. O., Pazhoohi*, F., Findling, C., Mell, H., Chevallier, C., & Baumard, N. (2021). Predictive modelling of religiosity, prosociality and moralizing in 295,000 individuals from European and non-European populations. Nature’s Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 8, 9.
• Pazhoohi, F., Pazhouhi, S., & Kingstone, A. (2021). Concern about contracting COVID-19 predicts men’s preference for female facial femininity, but not women’s preference for male facial masculinity. Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology, 7, 17–27.
• Garza, R., Pazhoohi, F., Byrd-Craven, J. (2020). Does ecological harshness influence men’s perceptions of women’s breast size, ptosis, and intermammary distance? Evolutionary Psychological Science, 7(2), 174-183.
• Sorokowski et al. (including Pazhoohi, F.). (2020). Universality of the triangular theory of love: Adaptation and psychometric properties of the triangular love scale in 25 countries. Journal of Sex Research, 58(1), 106-115.
• Pazhoohi, F. & Kingstone, A. (2020). Parasite Prevalence and Income Inequality Positively Predict Beardedness Across 25 Countries. Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology, 6(2), 185–193.
• Kowal et al. (including Pazhoohi, F.). (2020). Reasons for Facebook usage: data from 46 countries. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 711.
• Pazhoohi, F., Garza R. & Kingstone, A. (2020). Effects of Breast Size, Intermammary Cleft Distance (Cleavage) and Ptosis on Perceived Attractiveness, Health, Fertility and Age: Do Life History, Self-Perceived Mate Value and Sexism Attitude Play a Role? Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology, 6(1), 75–92.
• Pazhoohi, F., Arantes, J., Kingstone, A., & Pinal, D. (2020). Becoming sexy: Contrapposto pose increases attractiveness ratings and modulates observers’ brain activity. Biological Psychology,  151, 107842.
• Pazhoohi, F., Arantes, J., Kingstone, A., & Pinal, D. (2020). Waist to hip ratio and breast size modulate the processing of female body silhouettes: an EEG study. Evolution & Human Behavior, 41(2), 150-169.
• Walter et al. (including Pazhoohi, F.). (2020). Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Across 45 Countries: A Large-Scale Replication. Psychological Science.