Barnaby J. Dixson

University of Queensland

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As primates, we are hypersensitive to faces and face-like patterns in the visual environment, hence we often perceive illusory faces in otherwise inanimate objects, such as burnt pieces of toast and the surface of the moon. Although this phenomenon, known as face pareidolia, is a common experience, it is unknown whether our susceptibility to face pareidolia is static across our lifespan or what factors would cause it to change. Given the evidence that behaviour towards face stimuli is modulated by the neuropeptide oxytocin (OT), we reasoned that participants in stages of life associated with high levels of endogenous OT might be more susceptible to face pareidolia than participants in other stages of life. We tested this hypothesis by assessing pareidolia susceptibility in two groups of women; pregnant women (low endogenous OT) and postpartum women (high endogenous OT). We found evidence that postpartum women report seeing face pareidolia more easily than women who are currently pregnant. These data, collected online, suggest that our sensitivity to face-like patterns is not fixed and may change throughout adulthood, providing a crucial proof of concept that requires further research.

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Myrto Pantazi

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University of Amsterdam

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The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset

Preliminary evidence of an increased susceptibility to face pareidolia in postpartum women

The social predictors of paternal antenatal mental health and their associations with maternal mental health in the Queensland Family Cohort prospective study

Associations between COVID-19 lockdown and post-lockdown on the mental health of pregnant women, postpartum women and their partners from the Queensland family cohort prospective study

A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Erratum: Publisher Correction: Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample (Nature human behaviour (2022) 6 6 (880-895))

Erratum: Author Correction: A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic (Nature human behaviour (2021) 5 8 (1089-1110))

Facial hair may slow detection of happy facial expressions in the face in the crowd paradigm

Is facial structure an honest cue to real-world dominance and fighting ability in men? A pre-registered direct replication of

Beyond facial width-to-height ratios: bizygomatic width is highly sexually dimorphic when adjusting for allometry

Facial width-to-height ratio predicts fighting success: A direct replication and extension of Zilioli et al. (2014)

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Myrto Pantazi

Efisio Manunta

Raquel Oliveira

Beatrix Lábadi

Anna Greenburgh

Steven M McPhail

Chris Noone

Sangsuk Yoon

Raquel A. Oliveira

Karen M. Moritz

Jennifer Perillo

Erin Buchanan

Gwenael Kaminski

Andrew Thomas

Belinda Craig

Artur Domurat

Daniel Storage

Qinyu Xiao

Dustin Calvillo

Amélie Gourdon-Kanhukamwe

Kevin van Schie

Nadya-Daniela Schmidt

Nora L. Nock

Lara Warmelink

Paul Forbes

Jeremy Miller

Patricia Arriaga Ferreira

Jennifer Beaudry

Martin Seehuus

Ranran Li

Stefan Stieger

Hannah Carter

Julien Chanal

Alberto MIRISOLA

Suzanne Stewart

Bradley Kennedy

Ekaterina Pronizius

Nicole Nelson

Bastian Jaeger

Zoltan Kekecs

Bence Bago

Rafael Ribeiro

Carmelo P. Cubillas

Kevin Vezirian

Alexios Arvanitis

Kelly Wolfe

Clare Sutherland

Vicki L. Clifton

Francesco Foroni

Sailesh Kumar

Philip Pärnamets

Sandra J Geiger

Maja Becker

Keith Wylie

Anna Olga Kuzminska

Brenda Gannon

Tamás Nagy

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Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir

Radosław Walczak

Faith Chiu

Kym Rae

Cameron Hurst