2020+

• 2026
  • Jacobs, O., Pazhoohi, F., & Kingstone, A. (in press). Attributing mind to Large Language Models: The effect of exposure and individual differences. International Journal of Social Robotics.
  • Deniz, B., Garza, R., & Pazhoohi, F. (in press). Examining the associations between father-daughter attachments and romantic relationship styles: A cross-cultural comparison between women from the United Kingdom and Turkey.Current Psychology.
• 2025
  • Garza, R., Arsuaga, J., & Pazhoohi, F. (2025). Intrasexual competition and rival derogation in women are associated with visual processing of emotional facial expressions. Archives of Sexual Behavior.
  • Garza, R., Arsuaga, J., & Pazhoohi, F. (2025). Psychopathy predicts the use of physical, verbal, and indirect aggression in women. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences.
  • Sayyad, P., Bagherian, M., Pazhoohi, F., & Brown, M. (2025). Women’s anti-deception tactics in mating: A preliminary investigation. Evolutionary Psychological Science.
  • Pazhoohi, F., Wang, J. & Kingstone, A. (2025). Comfort Distance for Online and In-person Interactions: A Virtual Reality Study. Japanese Psychological Science.
  • Jacobs, O., Pazhoohi, F., Mullen, G., Kingstone, A. (2025). Comparative Designs Reveal Preferences for Human-Generated Rather Than AI-Generated art. Empirical Studies of the Arts.
  • Pazhoohi, F., Wang, J., Aoki, K., & Kingstone, A. (2025). Beyond the surface: How depth alters face perception. Evolutionary Psychological Science.
  • Pazhoohi*, F., Forby*, L., & Kingstone, A. (2025). Facial attractiveness perception in autistic individuals: Facial symmetry and dimorphism. Evolutionary Psychological Science.
  • Rostami–Aghoui, M., Floccia, C., Pazhoohi, F. (2025). Infants’ visual preference for expansive and contractive body postures: an eye-tracking study. Visual Cognition.
  • Kowal et al. (including Pazhoohi, F.). (2025). Cross-cultural data on romantic love and mate preferences from 117,293 participants across 175 countries. Scientific Data.
  • Garza, R., Woolman, E., Pazhouhi, S., Pazhoohi, F. (2025). Daddy’s little girl: The role of life history in paternal investment towards daughters. Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology.
  • Pazhoohi, F. (2025). Long Lashes, Mixed Signals: Investigating the effect of eyelash length on perceived health, attractiveness and sexual receptivity. Archives of Sexual Behavior.
  • Pazhoohi, F., & Kingstone, A., & Xygalatas, D. (2025). Does the conservativeness of religious veiling signal trust and in-group commitment? Evolutionary Psychological Science.
  • Pazhoohi, F., Wing, S. & Kingstone, A. (2025). Social Comfort and Attractiveness Perception: Impact of Prosthetics, Physical Disability, and Comfort Distance on Interpersonal Interactions. Evolutionary Human Sciences.
  • Gelbart, B., Walter, K. V., Conroy-Beam, D., Buss, D. M., Asao, K., Sorokowska, A., … Pazhoohi, F. … & Zupančič, M. (2025). The Function of Love: A signaling-to-alternatives account of the commitment device hypothesis. Evolution and Human Behavior.
  • Pfuhl, G. et al. (including Pazhoohi, F.). (2025). A preliminary study on the role of personal history of infectious and parasitic diseases in self-reported health across countries. Public Health.
• 2024
  • Pazhoohi, F. (2024). The Adaptive Function of Veiling: How Women Use Religious Veiling to Secure Male Protection. Evolutionary Psychological Science.
  • Kowal et al. (including Pazhoohi, F.). (2024). Love as a commitment device: Evidence from a cross-cultural study across 90 countries. Human Nature.
  • Pazhoohi, F. (2024). Reputation-Surveillance Model of Mate Guarding: Community Size and Religious Veiling. Evolutionary Human Sciences.
  • Jacobs, O., Pazhoohi, F., & Kingstone, A. (2024). Large language models have divergent effects on self-perceptions of mind and the attributes considered uniquely human. Consciousness and Cognition.
  • Pazhoohi, F., Jacobs, O., & Kingstone, A. (2024). Gaze preferences to male contrapposto and non-contrapposto postures. Empirical Studies of the Arts.
  • Pazhoohi, F., Aoki, K., Kingstone, A. (2024). Incomplete Faces Do but Masked Faces Do Not Affect Mind Perception. Psychological Reports.
  • Garza, R., & Pazhoohi, F. (2024). The role of breast morphology on women’s rival derogation tactics. Sexes, 5(3), 163-170.
  • Garza, R., Gonzalez-Elizondo, R., & Pazhoohi, F. (2024). Examining ecological harshness, sociosexuality, and mate value in women’s preferences for men’s height and shoulder-to-hip ratio. Evolutionary Psychological Science.
  • Garza, R., Afhami, R., & Pazhoohi, F. (2024). Men’s perceptions of beardedness in a Hispanic and Iranian sample: The role of intrasexual competition on evaluations of attractiveness, masculinity, and fighting ability. Evolutionary Psychological Science.
  • Pazhouhi, S., Garza, R., & Pazhoohi, F. (2024). Association of Life History Strategy and Mate Retention Behavior in Men and Women. Personality & Individual Differences.
  • Forby*, L., Pazhoohi*, F., & Kingstone, A. (2024). Autistic traits and Anthropomorphism: The case of vehicle fascia perception. Cognitive Processing.
  • Groyecka-Bernard et al. (including Pazhoohi, F.). (2024). Conservatism and history of parasitic disease predict creativity: A study across 28 countries. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
  • Pazhoohi, F., Afhami, R., Chegeni, R., Dubrov, D., Gałasińska, K., Garza, R., …, Pfuhl, G. (2024). Cross-cultural preferences for women’s waist-to-hip ratio and men’s shoulder-to-hip ratio: Data from Iran, Norway, Poland, and Russia. Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology.
  • Aung, T., Hill, A., Hlay, J., Hess, C., Hess, M., Johnson, J., … Pazhoohi, F. …& Puts, D. (2024). Effects of Voice Pitch on Social Perceptions Vary with Relational Mobility and Homicide Rate. Psychological Science. 
• 2023
  • Jacobs, O., Pazhoohi, F., & Kingstone, A. (2023). Self-discrepancies in mind perception between actual and ideal selves. PLOS One.
  • Meskó et al. (including Pazhoohi, F.). (2023). Exploring Attitudes Towards Sugar Relationship Across 87 Countries: A Global perspective on Exchanges of Resources for Sex and Companionship. Archives of Sexual Behavior.
  • Pazhoohi, F. & Kingstone, A. (2023). Eyelash length attractiveness across ethnicities. Scientific Reports.
  • Garza, R., Afhami, R., Mora, J., & Pazhoohi, F. (2023). Perceptions of beardedness for attractiveness, masculinity, fighting ability, and partner quality: A cross-cultural examination among Hispanic and Iranian women. Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology.
  • Pazhoohi, F., Gojamgunde, S. & Kingstone, A. (2023). Give Me Space: Sex, Attractiveness, and Mind Perception as Potential Contributors to Different Comfort Distances for Humans and Robots. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 90, 102088.
  • Jacobs*, O., Pazhoohi*, F., & Kingstone, A. (2023). Contrapposto posture captures visual attention: an online gaze tracking experiment. Visual Cognition.
  • Pazhoohi, F., Arantes, J., Kingstone, A., & Pinal, D. (2023). Neural correlates and perceived attractiveness of male and female shoulder-to-hip ratio. Archives of Sexual Behavior.
  • Pazhoohi, F., Binte Hassan, S. & Kingstone, A. (2023). The Interacting Effects of Men’s Height and Shoulder-to-Hip Ratio on Comfort Distance: A Virtual Reality Study. Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology.
  • Jacobs, O., Pazhoohi, F., & Kingstone, A. (preprint). Brief exposure increases mind perception to ChatGPT and is moderated by the individual propensity to anthropomorphize.
  • Garza, R., Pazhoohi, F., & Byrd-Craven, J. (2023). Ecological influences and visual attention to infant phenotypes. Culture & Evolution.
  • Pazhoohi, F., Garza, R., & Kingstone, A. (2023). Lordosis behavior (arching the back) signals sexual receptivity in women. Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology.
  • Forby, L., Anderson, N. C., Karstadt, B., Dawson, J., Pazhoohi, F., Cheng, J. T., Foulsham, T., & Kingstone, A. (2023). Reading the room: Autistic traits, gaze behaviour, and the ability to infer social relationships. PLOS ONE, 18(3), e0282310.
  • Garza, R., Pazhoohi, F., Al-Shawaf, L., Byrd-Craven, J. (2023). An eye tracking study examining the role of mating strategies, perceived vulnerability to disease, and disgust in attention to pathogenic cues. Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology.
  • Garza, R., & Pazhoohi, F. (2023). Intrasexual competition in women’s likelihood of self-enhancement and perceptions of breast morphology: A Hispanic Sample. Sexes, 4(1), 80-93.
  • Sorokowski et al. (including Pazhoohi, F.). (2023). Modernization, Collectivism, and Gender Equality Predict Love Experiences in 45 Countries. Scientific Reports, 3(1), 773.
• 2022
  • 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, 84, 101916.
  • 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, 43(6), 455-474.
  • 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). Cultural differences and similarities in the nature of infidelity. In T. DeLecce, & T. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Infidelity. Oxford University Press.
  • 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.
• 2021
  • 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.
  • 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,
  • 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.
• 2020
  • 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.

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