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Publications

Below is a list of my academic publications. Click the πŸ“„ icon for a copy β€” doing so constitutes you requesting a personal copy, and me fulfilling that request.

For the most current list, see my Google Scholar profile.

2026

  • Jaeger, B., Jones, A. L., Satchell, L., Schild, C., & van Leeuwen, F. (2026). Who likes extraverts? Testing the interplay between perceiver needs and target appearance in impression formation. International Review of Social Psychology, 39(1): 2, 1–13. doi:10.5334/irsp.996 [πŸ“„]

2025

  • Satchell, L. P., Hall, J., & Jones, A. L. (2025). Do we look at a threatening person’s face? The relationship between perception and observation of walking strangers. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. doi:10.1177/17470218251406631 [πŸ“„]
  • Kramer, R. S. S., Jones, A. L., Fitousi, D., & Tree, J. J. (2025). AI-generated images of familiar faces are indistinguishable from real photographs. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 10(70). doi:10.1186/s41235-025-00683-w [πŸ“„]
  • Jones, A. L., Kordsmeyer, T. L., Kramer, R. S. S., Stern, J., & Penke, L. (2025). Updating evidence on facial metrics: A Bayesian perspective on sexual dimorphism in facial width-to-height ratio and bizygomatic width. Evolution and Human Behavior, 46, 106781. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106781 [πŸ“„]
  • Rayner, C. L., Davies, J., Bradshaw, C. A., & Jones, A. L. (2025). Patterns of recreational substance use, help seeking and harm reduction among UK music festival attendees. Drug Science, Policy and Law, 11, 1–12. doi:10.1177/20503245251371721 [πŸ“„]
  • Kannan, C., Jones, A. L., Towler, J., & Tree, J. J. (2025). Do young and older adult populations perform equivalently across different automatic face-trait judgements? Evidence for differential impacts of ageing. PLOS ONE, 20(5), e0322165. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0322165 [πŸ“„]
  • Kramer, R. S. S., Jones, A. L., & Fitousi, D. (2025). Face familiarity and similarity: Within- and between-identity representations are altered by learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance. doi:10.1037/xhp0001317 [πŸ“„]
  • Tree, J. J., Kramer, R. S. S., & Jones, A. L. (2025). Upright and inverted unfamiliar face-matching tasks β€” everything correlates everywhere all at once. Memory & Cognition. doi:10.3758/s13421-025-01725-w [πŸ“„]
  • Tree, J. J., & Jones, A. L. (2025). Exploring insight into unfamiliar face recognition ability: The case from developmental prosopagnosia. Cortex. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2025.03.009 [πŸ“„]
  • Tree, J. J., & Jones, A. L. (2025). How prevalent is β€œother ethnicity blindness”? Exploring the extremes of recognition performance across categories of faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. doi:10.1037/xge0001730 [πŸ“„]
  • James, M. L., Stiles, V. H., von Lieres un Wilkau, H. C., Jones, A., Willy, R. W., Ashford, K. J., & Moore, I. S. (2025). Predictors of pelvic acceleration during treadmill running across various stride frequency conditions. Sports Biomechanics, 1–15. doi:10.1080/14763141.2024.2446179 [πŸ“„]

2024

  • Kramer, R. S. S., Javorkova, N., & Jones, A. (2024). No influence of face familiarity on the cheerleader effect. Visual Cognition, 1–11. doi:10.1080/13506285.2024.2405700 [πŸ“„]
  • Jones, A., Shiramizu, V., & Jones, B. C. (2024). Decoding the language of first impressions: Comparing models of first impressions of faces derived from free-text descriptions and trait ratings. British Journal of Psychology, 1–16. doi:10.1111/bjop.12717 [πŸ“„]
  • Kramer, R. S. S., Ritchie, K. L., Flack, T. R., Mireku, M. O., & Jones, A. (2024). The psychometrics of rating facial attractiveness using different response scales. Perception, 1–16. doi:10.1177/03010066241256221 [πŸ“„]
  • Jaeger, B., Sleegers, W. W. A., Stern, J., Penke, L., & Jones, A. (2024). Testing perceivers’ accuracy and accuracy awareness when forming personality impressions from faces. European Journal of Personality, 1–21. doi:10.1177/08902070231225728 [πŸ“„]

2023

  • Kramer, R. S. S., Jarvis, J.-L., Green, M., & Jones, A. (2023). The relationship between facial attractiveness and perceived guilt across crime type. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1–9. doi:10.1177/17470218231218651 [πŸ“„]
  • Satchell, L. P., Jaeger, B., Jones, A., LΓ³pez, B., & Schild, C. (2023). Beyond reliability in first impressions research: Considering validity and the need to β€œmix it up with folks”. Social Psychological Bulletin, 18, e10211. doi:10.32872/spb.10211 [πŸ“„]
  • Kramer, R. S. S., Flanagan, E., Jones, A., & Gous, G. (2023). Wisdom of the inner crowd benefits both face and voice matching. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 1–9. doi:10.1002/acp.4133 [πŸ“„]
  • Turner, A. D., Ong, J. C., Jones, A., Tu, A., Salanitro, & Crawford, M. R. (2023). Neurocognitive functioning in comorbid insomnia and sleep apnea patients is better after positive airway pressure therapy, but worse after cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia: Exploratory analysis of cognitive outcomes from the Multidisciplinary Approach to the Treatment of Insomnia and Comorbid Sleep Apnea study. Sleep, 46, 1–12. doi:10.1093/sleep/zsad128 [πŸ“„]
  • Bobak, A. K., Jones, A., Hilker, Z., Mestry, N., Bate, S., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2023). Data-driven studies in face identity processing rely on the quality of the tests and data sets. Cortex, 166, 348–364. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2023.05.018 [πŸ“„]
  • Embling, R., Price, M. J., Lee, M. D., Jones, A., & Wilkinson, L. L. (2023). Associations between dietary variety, portion size and body weight: Prospective evidence from UK Biobank participants. British Journal of Nutrition, 1–11. doi:10.1017/S0007114523000156 [πŸ“„]
  • Hadden, L. M., Penny, H., Jones, A., Partridge, A. M., Lancaster, T. M., & Allen, C. (2023). Pre-frontal stimulation does not reliably increase reward responsiveness. Cortex, 159, 268–285. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2022.11.011 [πŸ“„]

2022

  • Batres, C., Jones, A., Barlett, C. P., Porcheron, A., Morizot, F., & Russell, R. (2022). Makeup works by modifying factors of facial beauty. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. doi:10.1037/aca0000505 [πŸ“„]
  • Kramer, R. S. S., & Jones, A. (2022). Incomplete faces are completed using a more average face. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7:708. doi:10.1186/s41235-022-00429-y [πŸ“„]
  • Childs, M. J., & Jones, A. (2022). Perceptions of individuals who engage in age concealment. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. doi:10.1037/ebs0000305 [πŸ“„]
  • Ong, J., Dawson, S., Taylor, H., Park, M., Burgess, H., Crawford, M., Rains, J., Smitherman, T., Espie, C., Jones, A., & Wyatt, J. (2022). A micro-longitudinal study of naps, sleep disturbance, and headache severity in women with chronic migraine. Behavioural Sleep Medicine. doi:10.1080/15402002.2022.2050723 [πŸ“„]
  • Jaeger, B., & Jones, A. (2022). Which facial features are central in impression formation? Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13(2), 553–561. doi:10.1177/19485506211034979 [πŸ“„]

2021

  • Jones, A. (2021). Height shows no clear association with self-serving beliefs about wealth redistribution: A commentary on Richardson (2020). Evolution and Human Behaviour, 42, 593–596. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2021.09.002 [πŸ“„]
  • Kramer, R., & Jones, A. (2021). Wanting or having children predicts age preferences in online dating. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. doi:10.1037/ebs0000274 [πŸ“„]
  • Holzleitner, I., Jones, A., O’Shea, K., Cassar, R., Fasolt, V., Shiramizu, V., Jones, B., & DeBruine, L. (2021). Do 3D face images capture cues of strength, weight, and height better than 2D face images do? Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 7(3), 209–219. doi:10.1007/s40750-021-00170-8 [πŸ“„]
  • Childs, M., Jones, A., Thwaites, P., ZdravkoviΔ‡, S., Thorley, C., Suzuki, A., Shen, R., Ding, Q., Burns, E., Xu, H., & Tree, J. (2021). Do individual differences in face recognition ability moderate the other ethnicity effect? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47(7), 893–907. doi:10.1037/xhp0000762 [πŸ“„]
  • Moore, I., James, M., Brockwell, E., Perkins, J., Jones, A., & Donnelly, G. (2021). Multidisciplinary, biopsychosocial factors contributing to return to running and running related stress urinary incontinence in postpartum women. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 55(22). doi:10.1136/bjsports-2021-104168 [πŸ“„]
  • Jones, A., & Kramer, R. (2021). Facial first impressions form two clusters representing approach-avoidance. Cognitive Psychology, 126, 101387. doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2021.101387 [πŸ“„]
  • Jones, A., Schild, C., & Jones, B. (2021). Facial metrics generated from manually and automatically placed image landmarks are highly correlated. Evolution and Human Behavior, 42(3), 186–193. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.09.002 [πŸ“„]
  • Kramer, R., Jones, A., & Gous, G. (2021). Individual differences in face and voice matching abilities: The relationship between accuracy and consistency. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35(1), 192–202. doi:10.1002/acp.3754 [πŸ“„]
  • Jones, A., Jaeger, B., & Schild, C. (2021). No credible evidence for links between 2D:4D and COVID-19 outcomes: A probabilistic perspective on digit ratio, ACE variants, and national case fatalities. Early Human Development, 152, 105272. doi:10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2020.105272 [πŸ“„]

2020

  • Kramer, R., & Jones, A. (2020). Sequential effects in facial attractiveness judgments using cross-classified models: Investigating perceptual and response biases. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46(12), 1476–1489. doi:10.1037/xhp0000869 [πŸ“„]
  • Kramer, R., Berry, C., Jones, A., & Gous, G. (2020). Face familiarity and image-specific memory. Perception, 49(9). doi:10.1177/0301006620946265 [πŸ“„]
  • Crawford, M., Luik, A., Espie, C., Taylor, H., Burgess, H., Jones, A., & Ong, J. (2020). Digital cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia in women with chronic migraines. Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, 60(5), 902–915. doi:10.1111/head.13777 [πŸ“„]

2019

  • Callow, N., Edwards, M., Jones, A., Hardy, L., & Connell, S. (2019). Action dual tasks reveal differential effects of visual imagery perspectives on motor performance. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(6), 1401–1411. doi:10.1177/1747021818811464 [πŸ“„]
  • Russell, R., Batres, C., Jones, A., & Porcheron, A. (2019). A role for contrast gain control in skin appearance. Journal of Vision, 19(11). doi:10.1167/19.13.11 [πŸ“„]
  • Blagrove, M., Hale, S., Lockheart, J., Carr, M., Jones, A., & Valli, K. (2019). Testing the empathy theory of dreaming: The relationships between dream sharing and trait and state empathy. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1351. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01351 [πŸ“„]
  • Jones, A., Tree, J., & Ward, R. (2019). Personality in faces: Implicit associations between appearance and personality. European Journal of Social Psychology, 49(3), 658–669. doi:10.1002/ejsp.2534 [πŸ“„]
  • Jones, A., & Jaeger, B. (2019). Biological bases of beauty revisited: The effect of symmetry, averageness, and sexual dimorphism on female facial attractiveness. Symmetry, 11(2), 279. doi:10.3390/sym11020279 [πŸ“„]

2018

  • Jones, A. (2018). The influence of shape and colour cue classes on facial health perception. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(1), 19–29. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.09.005 [πŸ“„]

2017

  • Jones, A., Porcheron, A., & Russell, R. (2017). Makeup changes the apparent size of facial features. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. doi:10.1037/aca0000152 [πŸ“„]
  • Jones, A., Batres, C., Porcheron, A., Sweda, J., Morizot, F., & Russell, R. (2017). Positive facial affect looks healthy. Visual Cognition, 1–12. doi:10.1080/13506285.2017.1369202 [πŸ“„]
  • Mason, K., Barlett, C., & Jones, A. (2017). The influence of the opposite sex on hypothetical aggressive inclinations. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 088626051772483. doi:10.1177/0886260517724831 [πŸ“„]
  • Russell, R., Kramer, S., & Jones, A. (2017). Facial contrast declines with age but remains sexually dimorphic throughout adulthood. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. doi:10.1007/s40750-017-0068-x [πŸ“„]
  • Sumanapala, D., Fish, L., Jones, A., & Cross, E. (2017). Have I grooved to this before? Discriminating practised and observed actions in a novel context. Acta Psychologica, 175, 42–49. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.02.008 [πŸ“„]

2016

  • Diersch, N., Jones, A., & Cross, E. (2016). The timing and precision of action prediction in the aging brain. Human Brain Mapping, 37(1), 54–66. doi:10.1002/hbm.23012 [πŸ“„]
  • Mileva, V., Jones, A., Russell, R., Little, A., & Jones, A. (2016). Sex differences in the perceived dominance and prestige of women with and without cosmetics. Perception, 45(10), 1166–1183. doi:10.1177/0301006616652053 [πŸ“„]
  • Jones, A., & Kramer, R. (2016). Facial cosmetics and attractiveness: Comparing the effect sizes of professionally-applied cosmetics and identity. PLOS ONE, 11(10), e0164218. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0164218 [πŸ“„]
  • Russell, R., Porcheron, A., Sweda, J., Jones, A., Mauger, E., & Morizot, F. (2016). Facial contrast is a cue for perceiving health from the face. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42(9), 1354–1362. doi:10.1037/xhp0000219 [πŸ“„]
  • Jones, A., Porcheron, A., Sweda, J., Morizot, F., & Russell, R. (2016). Coloration in different areas of facial skin is a cue to health: The role of cheek redness and periorbital luminance in health perception. Body Image, 17, 57–66. doi:10.1016/j.bodyim.2016.02.001 [πŸ“„]

2015

  • Kramer, R., & Jones, A. (2015). Do people’s first names match their faces? Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis, 12(1). [πŸ“„]
  • Scott, N., Jones, A., Kramer, R., & Ward, R. (2015). Facial dimorphism in autistic quotient scores. Clinical Psychological Science, 3(2), 230–241. doi:10.1177/2167702614534238 [πŸ“„]
  • Jones, A., & Kramer, R. (2015). Facial cosmetics have little effect on attractiveness judgments compared with identity. Perception, 44(1), 79–86. doi:10.1068/p7904 [πŸ“„]
  • Jones, A., Russell, R., & Ward, R. (2015). Cosmetics alter biologically-based factors of beauty: Evidence from facial contrast. Evolutionary Psychology, 13(1). doi:10.1177/147470491501300113 [πŸ“„]

2014

  • Jones, A., Kramer, R., & Ward, R. (2014). Miscalibrations in judgements of attractiveness with cosmetics. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(10), 2060–2068. doi:10.1080/17470218.2014.908932 [πŸ“„]

2013

  • Kramer, R., Jones, A., & Sharma, D. (2013). Sequential effects in judgements of attractiveness: The influences of face race and sex. PLOS ONE, 8(12), e82226. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0082226 [πŸ“„]
  • Scott, N., Kramer, R., Jones, A., & Ward, R. (2013). Facial cues to depressive symptoms and their associated personality attributions. Psychiatry Research, 208(1), 47–53. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2013.02.027 [πŸ“„]

2012

  • Jones, A., Kramer, R., & Ward, R. (2012). Signals of personality and health: The contributions of facial shape, skin texture, and viewing angle. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38(6), 1353–1361. doi:10.1037/a0027078 [πŸ“„]
  • Kramer, R., Jones, A., & Ward, R. (2012). A lack of sexual dimorphism in width-to-height ratio in white european faces using 2D photographs, 3D scans, and anthropometry. PLOS ONE, 7(8), e42705. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0042705 [πŸ“„]