Lisa LM Welling
Assistant Professor
welling@oakland.edu  
Office: 212 Pryale Hall
Phone: (248) 370-2915
Fax: (248) 370-4612

Education
PhD, University of Aberdeen, Scotland (2008)

Research Interests
My research mainly focuses on hormonal and psychological sources of individual differences in human mate preferences and behavior, including how menstrual cycle effects, hormonal contraceptive use, and other sources of hormonal variation affect mate choice in men and women. Additionally, I am interested in human sexual behavior and adaptive preferences for cues to kinship and underlying markers of mate quality.

Publications
Welling LLM, Singh K, Puts DA, Jones BC & Burriss RP (in press). Sex drive predicts homosexual men's and women's preferences for sexually dimorphic cues in faces. Archives of Sexual Behavior.

Welling LLM, Puts DA, Roberts SC, Little AC & Burriss RP (2012). Hormonal contraceptive use and mate retention behavior in women and their male partners. Hormones and Behavior, 61, 114-120.

Welling LLM, Burriss RP & Puts DA (2011). Mate retention behavior modulates men’s preferences for self-resemblance in infant faces. Evolution and Human Behavior, 32(2), 118-126.

Welling LLM, Jones BC & DeBruine LM (2009). Extraversion predicts individual differences in women’s face preferences. Personality and Individual Differences, 47, 996-998.

Welling LLM, Bestelmeyer PEG, DeBruine LM, Little AC, Conway CA, & Jones BC (2009). View-contingent aftereffects suggest joint coding of face shape and view. Perception, 38, 133-141.

Welling LLM, Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Smith FG, Feinberg DR, Little AC & Al-Dujaili EAS (2008). Men report stronger attraction to femininity in women’s faces when their testosterone levels are high. Hormones and Behavior, 54, 703-708.

Welling LLM, Jones BC, & DeBruine LM (2008). Sex drive is positively associated with women's preferences for sexual dimorphism in men's and women's faces. Personality and Individual Differences, 44, 161-170.

Welling LLM, Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Little AC & Smith FG (2008). Exposure to sexually attractive men decreases women’s preferences for feminine faces. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 6, 219-230.

Welling LLM, Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Conway CA, Law Smith MJ, Little AC, Feinberg DR, Sharp MA & Al-Dujaili EA (2007). Raised salivary testosterone in women is associated with increased attraction to masculine faces. Hormones and Behavior, 52, 156-161.

Welling LLM, Conway CA, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2007). Perceived vulnerability to disease is positively related to the strength of preferences for apparent health in faces. Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology, 5, 131-139.

Puts DA, Bailey DH, Cárdenas RA, Burriss RP, Welling LLM & Wheatley JR (submitted). Women’s attractiveness changes with estradiol and progesterone across the ovulatory cycle. Hormones and Behavior.

Puts DA, Dawood K & Welling LLM (in press). Why women have orgasms:  An evolutionary analysis. Archives of Sexual Behavior.

Tinlin RM, Watkins CD, Welling LLM, DeBruine LM, Al-Dujaili EA & Jones BC (in press). Perceived facial adiposity conveys information about women’s health. British Journal of Psychology.

Puts DA, Welling LLM, Burriss RP & Dawood K (2012). Men's masculinity and attractiveness predict their female partners' reported orgasm frequency and timing. Evolution and Human Behavior, 33(1), 1-9.

Burriss RP, Roberts SC, Welling LLM, Puts DA & Little AC (2011). Heterosexual romantic couples mate assortatively for facial symmetry, but not masculinity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 601-613.

Burriss RP, Welling LLM, Puts DA (2011). Mate-preference drives mate-choice: Men's self-rated masculinity predicts their female partner's preference for masculinity. Personality and Individual Differences, 51, 1023-1027.

Burriss RP, Welling LLM, Puts DA (2011). Men’s attractiveness predicts their preference for female facial femininity when judging for short-term, but not long-term, partners. Personality and Individual Differences. 50, 542-546.

DeBruine LM, Jones BC, Little AC, Crawford JR & Welling LLM (2011). Further evidence for regional variation in women's masculinity preferences. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 278, 813-814.

Jones BC, Little AC, Watkins CD, Welling LLM & DeBruine LM (2011). Reported sexual desire predicts men’s preferences for sexually dimorphic cues in women’s faces. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40(6), 1281-1285.

Puts DA, Barndt JL, Welling LLM, Dawood K & Burriss RP (2011). Intrasexual competition among women: Vocal femininity affects perceptions of attractiveness and flirtatiousness. Personality and Individual Differences, 50(1): 111-115. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.09.011.

Vukovic J, Jones BC, Feinberg DR, DeBruine LM, Smith FG, Welling LLM & Little AC (2011). Variation in perceptions of physical dominance and trustworthiness predicts individual differences in the effect of relationship context on women's preferences for masculine pitch in men's voices. British Journal of Psychology, 102(1): 37-48.

Bestelmeyer PEG, Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Little AC, Schneider A, Welling LLM & Conway CA (2010). Face aftereffects demonstrate interdependent processing of expressions and the invariant characteristics of sex and race. Visual Cognition, 18, 255-274.

DeBruine LM, Jones BC, Crawford JR, Welling LLM & Little AC (2010). The health of a nation predicts their mate preferences: Cross-cultural variation in women's preferences for masculinized male faces. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 277(1692): 2405-2410.

DeBruine LM, Welling LLM, Jones BC & Little AC (2010). Opposite effects of visual versus imagined presentation of faces on subsequent sex perception. Visual Cognition, 18, 816-828.

Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Main JC, Little AC, Welling LLM, Feinberg DR & Tiddeman BP (2010). Facial cues of dominance modulate the short-term gaze-cuing effect in human observers. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 277, 617-624.

Jones BC, Main JC, DeBruine LM, Little AC & Welling LLM (2010). Reading the look of love: Sexually dimorphic cues in opposite-sex faces influence gaze-categorization. Psychological Science, 21, 796-798.

Vukovic J, Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Feinberg DR, Smith FG, Little AC, Welling LLM & Main JC (2010). Women’s own voice pitch predicts their preferences for masculinity in men’s voices. Behavioral Ecology, 21, 767-772.

Smith FG, DeBruine LM, Jones BC, Krupp DB, Welling LLM & Conway CA (2009). Attractiveness qualifies the effect of observation on trusting behavior in an economic game. Evolution and Human Behavior, 30, 393-397.

Smith FG, Jones BC, Little AC, DeBruine LM, Welling LLM, Vukovic J & Conway CA (2009). Hormonal contraceptive use and perceptions of trust modulate the effect of relationship context on women's preferences for sexual dimorphism in male face shape. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 7, 195-210. 

Smith FG, Jones BC, Welling LLM, Little AC, Vukovic J, Main JC & DeBruine LM (2009). Waist-hip ratio predicts women's preferences for masculine male faces, but not perceptions of men's trustworthiness. Personality and Individual Differences, 47, 476-480.

Vukovic J, Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Little AC, Feinberg DR & Welling LLM (2009). Circum-menopausal changes in women's face preferences. Biology Letters, 5, 62-64.

Bestelmeyer PEG, Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Little AC, Perrett DI, Schneider A, Welling LLM & Conway CA (2008). Sex-contingent face aftereffects depend on perceptual category rather than structural encoding. Cognition, 107, 353-365.

Conway CA, Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Little AC, Hay J, Welling LLM, Perrett DI & Feinberg DR (2008). Integrating physical and social cues when forming face preferences: Differences among low and high anxiety individuals. Social Neuroscience, 3, 89-95.

Vukovic J, Feinberg DR, Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Welling LLM, Little AC & Smith FG (2008). Self-rated attractiveness predicts individual differences in women's preferences for masculine men's voices. Personality and Individual Differences, 45, 451-456.

Conway CA, Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Welling LLM, Law Smith MJ, Perrett DI, Sharpe M, & Al-Dujalli EA (2007). Salience of emotional displays of danger and contagion in faces is enhanced when progesterone levels are raised. Hormones and Behavior, 51, 202-206.
Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Little AC, Conway CA, Welling LLM & Smith FG (2007). Sensation seeking and men's face preferences. Evolution and Human Behavior, 28, 439-446.

Buckingham G, DeBruine LM, Little AC, Welling LLM, Conway CA, Tiddeman BP & Jones BC (2006). Visual adaptation to masculine and feminine faces influences generalized preferences and perceptions of trustworthiness. Evolution and Human Behavior, 27, 381-389.