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Dixson, B. J. W. et al., The Queensland Family Cohort: Paternal antenatal social support predicts maternal postpartum mental health. Archives of Women’s Mental Health. Accepted 29/6/2022.  

​Dorison et al. In COVID-19 health messaging, loss framing increases anxiety with little-to-no concomitant benefits: Experimental evidence from 84 countries. Affective Science. Accepted 2/6/2022. 
  1. Clifton, V. L et al. 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. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. Accepted 27/5/2022. 
 
  1. *Caton, N.R, *Pearson, S., Dixson, B. J. W. 2022. Perceived aggressiveness and fighting performance in mixed-martial-arts fighters: A Direct Replication of Trebický et al. (2013). Evolution and Human Behavior. Accepted15/1/2022.
 
  1. Psychological Science Accelerator Self-Determination Theory Collaboration. 2022. A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(22), e2111091119.
 
  1. Bago, B., Kovacs, M., Protzko, J., Nagy, T., Kekecs, Z., Palfi, B., …. Dixson, B. J. W., ... & Matibag, C. J. 2022. Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample. Nature human behaviour, 6, 880-895.
 
  1. *Caton, N. R., Hannan, J., & Dixson, B.J.W. 2022. Facial width-to-height ratio predicts fighting success: A direct replication and extension of Zilioli et al. (2014). Aggressive Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.22027
 
  1. Wang K., Goldenberg A., Dorison, C.A., Miller, J.K., Uusberg, A., Lerner, J.S., Gross, J.J., Agesin, B.B., Bernardo, M., Campos, O., Eudave, L., Grzech, K., Ozery, D.H., Jackson, E.A., Luis Garcia, E.O., Drexler, S.M., Jurković, A.P., Rana, K., Wilson, J.P., … Moshontz, H. 2021. A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behavior, 5, 1089-1110.
 
  1. Dixson, B. J. W., *Spiers, T., *Miller, P. A, *Sidari, M. J., Nelson, N. J., & Craig, B. M. 2022. The bearded face in the crowd: Facial hair reduces detection of happy facial expressions. Scientific Reports. 
 
  1. Dixson, B. J.W. 2022. Sexual selection and the evolution of human appearance enhancements. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 51, 49-55.
 
  1. Dixson, B.J.W, Barkhuizen, C. L., & Craig B. M. 2021. Beardedness increases the speed, accuracy and explicit judgments of facial threat. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 7, 347–362.
 
  1. Jones, B. C., DeBruine, L. M., Flake, J. K., Liuzza, M. T., Antfolk, J., Arinze, N. C., ... & Sirota, M. 2021. To which world regions does the valence–dominance model of social perception apply? Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 159-169.
 
  1. *Lam, M., Masser, B.M., & Dixson, B.J.W. 2021. A branded bandage is worth a thousand words: Blood branded bandages signal men’s altruism and morality. Vox Sanguinis.
 
  1. Borg, D., Rae, K., Fiveash, C., Schagen, J., James-McAlpine, J., Friedlander, F., ... & Clifton, V. 2021. Queensland Family Cohort: a study protocol. BMJ open, 11(6), e044463.
 
  1. Dixson, B.J.W & Lee, A. J. 2020. Cross-cultural variation in men’s beardedness. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 6, 490-500.
 
  1. Dixson, B.J.W. 2020. Introduction to the Special Edition: Intra-Sexual Selection and the Evolution of Male Facial Threat and Dominance Displays. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 6, 137-142.
 
  1. *Mefodeva, V., Sidari M.J., Chau, H., Fitzsimmons, B., Strain, G., Clarkson, T.R., Pearson, S, Lee, A.J., & Dixson, B.J.W. 2020. Multivariate intra-sexual selection on men’s perceptions of male facial morphology. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 6, 143-169.
 
  1. *Petterson, L. J., Dixson, B.J.W, Little, A.C., & Vasey, P.L. 2020. Heterogeneity in the sexual orientations of men who have sex with Fa’afafine in Samoa. Archives of Sexual Behavior.
 
  1. *Clarkson, T. R., Sidari, M. J., Sains, R., Alexander, M., Harrison, M., Mefodeva, V. Pearson, S., Lee, A. J., Dixson, B. J. W. 2020. A multivariate analysis of women’s mating strategies and sexual selection on men’s facial morphology. Royal Society Open Science, 7, 191209.
 
  1. Denson, T. F., Dixson, B.J.W., Tibubos, A. N., Zhang, E., Harmon-Jones, E. & Kasumovic, M. M. Violent Video Game Play, Gender, and Trait Aggression Influence Subjective Fighting Ability, Perceptions of Men's Toughness, and Anger Facial Recognition. 2020. Computers in Human Behavior.
 
  1. *Sidari, M. J., Lee, A. J., Murphy, S. C., Sherlock, J. M., Dixson, B. J. W. & Zietsch, B. P. 2020. Preferences for sexually dimorphic body characteristics revealed in a large sample of speed daters. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1948550619882925.
 
  1. *Kellie, D. J., Dixson, B. J. W. & Brooks, R. C. 2020. Papa don’t preach? Using lies to expose the truth about who suppresses female sexuality. Human Nature, 31, 222-248.
 
  1. Nelson, N. L. Kennedy-Costantini, S., Lee, A. J., Dixson, B.J.W. 2019. Children’s judgements of facial hair are influenced by biological development and experience. Evolution and Human Behavior, 113, 55-66.
 
  1. Dixson, B. J.W. Male ornamentation. 2019. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer.
 
  1. Dixson, B. J.W., Kennedy-Costantini, S., Lee, A. J., & Nelson, N. L. 2019. Mothers are sensitive to men's beards as a potential cue of paternal investment. Hormones and behavior, 113, 55-66.
 
  1. *Gooda-Vossos A., Brooks, R. C., & Dixson, B. J. W. 2019. The interplay between sex, status and attractiveness, and the importance of attire in mate choice judgments. Frontiers on Psychology.
 
  1. *Stower, R., Lee, A. J; McIntosh, T., Sidari, M., Sherlock, J. M., Dixson B. J. W. 2020. Mating strategies and the masculinity paradox: How relationship context, relationship status and sociosexuality shape women's preferences for facial masculinity and beardedness. Archives of Sexual Behavior.
 
  1. Dixson, B.J.W., Rantala, M. J., & Brooks, R. C. 2019. Cross-cultural variation in women’s preferences for men’s body hair. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 5, 131-147.
 
  1. Dixson, B.J.W. 2019. Sexual selection and extended phenotypes in humans. 2019. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 5, 103-107.
 
  1. Marcinkowska U.M., Rantala, M. J., Lee, A. J., Kozlov, M. V., Toivo, A., Cai, T. H., Jorge Contreras-Garduño6, J., David, O. A., Kaminski, G., Li, N. P., Onyishi, I. E., Prasai, K., Pazhoohi, F., Prokop, P., Cardozo, S. L. R., Sydney, N., Taniguchi, H., Krams, I., & Dixson, B. J. W. 2019. Women’s preferences for men’s facial masculinity are strongest under favorable ecological conditions. Scientific Reports.
 
  1. Craig, B. M., Nelson, N. L., & Dixson B. J. W. 2019. Sexual selection, agonistic signalling, and the effect of beards on men’s anger displays. Psychological Science, 30, 728-738.
 
  1. *Neldner, K., Redshaw, J., Murphy, S., Tomaselli, K., Davis, J., Dixson, B. J, W & Nielsen, M. 2019. Creation across culture: Children’s tool innovation is influenced by cultural and developmental factors. Developmental Psychology, 55, 877-889.
 
  1. *Petterson, L. J., Dixson, B.J., Little, A.C., & Vasey, P.L. 2018. Viewing time and self-report measures of sexual attraction in Samoan cisgender and transgender androphilic males. Archives of Sexual Behavior. Accepted. Online First: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-018-1267-7.
 
  1. *Gouda-Vossos A., Nakagawa, S., Dixson, B. J. W. & Brooks, R. C. 2018. Mate choice copying in humans: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 4, 364-386.
 
  1. Moshontz et al.. 2018. Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology through a Distributed Collaborative Network. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1, 501-515.
 
  1. Dixson, H.G., Komugabe, A.F, Dixson, B.J.W., & Low, J. 2018. Scaling theory of mind in a small-scale society: A case study from Vanuatu. Child Development, 89, 2157-2175.
 
  1. Dixson, B.J.W., Blake, K.R., Denson, T.F., Gouda-Vossos, A., Sulikowski, D., Rantala, M.J., Brooks, R.C. 2018. The role of mating context and fecundability in women’s preferences for men’s facial masculinity and beardedness. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 93, 90-102.
 
  1. Dixson B. J. W. 2018. Is male facial width-to-height ratio the target of sexual selection? Archives of Sexual Behavior, 47, 827-828. 
 
  1. Dixson B. J. W. 2018. Sexual attractants. Encyclopedia of Reproduction 2nd Edition. Wiley.
 
  1. Dixson B. J. W., Sherlock, J. M., Cornwall, W., Kasumovic, M.M. 2018. Contest competition and men’s facial hair: Beards may not provide advantages in combat. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39, 147-153. 
 
  1. Dixson B. J. W., Lee, A. J., Blake, K. R., Jasienska, G & Marcinkowska, U. M. 2018. Women’s preferences for men’s beards show no relation to their ovarian cycle phase and sex hormone levels. Hormones and Behavior. 97, 137-144.
 
  1. Dixson B. J. W., Little, A.C., *Dixson, H.G.W., & Brooks, R.C. 2017. Do prevailing environmental factors influence human preferences for facial morphology? Behavioral Ecology, 28, 1217-1227.
 
  1. Dixson, B. J.W, & Rantala, M. J. 2017. Further evidence using a continuous measure of conception probability that women's preferences for male facial and body hair may not change with fecundability. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 46, 1159-1160.
 
  1. Dixson, B. J. W., Rantala, M. J., Melo, E. F., & Brooks R. C. 2017. Beards and the big city: Displays of masculinity may be amplified under crowded conditions. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38, 259-264.
 
  1. Dixson, B. J. W, Lee, A. J., *Sherlock, J. M., & Talamas, S. N. 2017. Beneath the beard: Do facial morphometrics influence the strength of judgments of men’s beardedness? Evolution and Human Behavior. 38, 164-174.
 
  1. Dixson, B. J.W. 2017. Facial width-to-height ratio and dominance. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3-1.
 
  1. *McIntosh, T., Lee, A. J; Sidari, M., Stower, R., Sherlock, J. M., Dixson B. J. W. 2017. Microbes and masculinity: Does exposure to pathogenic cues alter women’s preferences for male facial masculinity and beardedness? PloS One, 12(6), e0178206.
 
  1. *Marcinkowska, U. M., Dixson B. J., Kozlov, M. V., Prasai, K., & Rantala, M. J. 2017. Men’s preferences for female facial femininity decline with age. Journal of Gerontology B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 72, 180-186.
 
  1. *Sherlock, J. M., Tegg, B., Sullikowski, D., & Dixson, B. J. W. 2017. Facial masculinity and beardedness determine men's explicit, but not their implicit, responses to male dominance. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 3, 14–29.
 
  1. Valentova, J. V., Varella, M., Bártová, K., Štěrbová, Z., & Dixson, B. J. W. 2017. Mate preferences and choices for facial and body hair in heterosexual women and homosexual men: Effects of sex, population, homogamy, and imprinting-like effects. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38, 241-248.
 
  1. *Blake, K. R., Dixson, B. J., O'Dean, S. M., & Denson, T. F. 2017. No compelling positive association between ovarian hormones and wearing red clothing when using multinomial analyses. Hormones and Behavior, 90, 129-135.
 
  1. Dixson, B. J.W. 2016. Masculinity and femininity. 2016. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3389-1
 
  1. Dixson, B. J.W., Sullikowski, D., Gouda-Vossos A., Rantala, M. J., & Brooks R. C. 2016. The masculinity paradox: Facial masculinity and beardedness interact to determine women’s ratings of men’s facial attractiveness Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 29, 2311-2320.
 
  1. Dixson, B. J.W. 2016. Waist-to-hip ratio. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3-1
 
  1. *Blake, K., Dixson, B.J.W, O’Dean, S. M., & Denson, T. F. 2016. Standardized methodological protocols for measuring the effects of fertility on women’s behavior: A data-driven approach contrasting counting and hormonal methods. Hormones and Behavior, 81, 74-83.
 
  1. Dixson, B. J., & Rantala, M. J. 2016. The role of facial and body hair distribution in women’s judgments of men’s sexual attractiveness. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 45, 877-889.
 
  1. Oldmeadow, J.A., & Dixson, B. J. 2016. The association between men’s sexist attitudes and facial hair. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 45, 891-899.
 
  1. Oldmeadow, J.A., & Dixson, B. J. 2016. No contradictions, but directions for further research. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 45, 785-786.
                                                                 
  1. *Gouda-Vossos A., Dixson B. J., & Brooks R. C. 2016. Social selection and the gender gap: A complex interplay between sex, social context and age modifies ratings of attractiveness and status in women and men. PLoS One. 11(1): e0146269. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0146269
 
  1. *Petterson, L. J., Dixson, B.J., Little, A.C., & Vasey, P.L. 2016. Reconsidering male bisexuality: Sexual activity role and sexual attraction in Samoan men who engage in sexual interactions with Fa’afafine. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 3, 11-26.
 
  1. *Geniole, S. N., Denson T. F., Dixson B. J., Carré, J.M., & McCormick, C. M. 2015. Evidence from meta-analyses of the facial width-to-height ratio as an evolved cue of threat. PloS ONE. 10(7): e0132726. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0132726.
 
  1. Dixson B. J., Duncan, M., & Dixson A. F. 2015. The role of breast size and areolar pigmentation in perceptions of women’s attractiveness, reproductive health, sexual maturity, nurturing abilities, and age. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 1685-1695.
 
  1. Grueter, C. C, Isler, K., & Dixson. B. J. 2015. Are primate badges of status adaptive in large groups? Evolution and Human Behavior, 36, 398-406.
 
  1. Brooks R. C., Jordan, A.L., Shelly, J., Dixson B. J. 2015. The multivariate evolution of female body shape in an artificial digital ecosystem. Evolution and Human Behavior, 36, 351-358.
 
  1. Kasumovic, M. M., Blake, K., Dixson, B. J., & Denson, T, F. 2015. Why do people play violent videogames? Demographic, status-related, and mating-related correlates in men and women. Personality and Individual Differences, 86, 204-211.
 
  1. *Petterson, L. J., Dixson, B.J., Little, A.C., & Vasey, P.L. 2015. Viewing time measures of sexual orientation in Samoan cisgender men who engage in sexual interactions with fa’afafine. PloS ONE 10
(2): e0116529. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0116529.
 
  1. *Janif, J. Z., Brooks, R. C., & Dixson, B. J. 2015. Are preferences for women’s hair color frequency dependent? Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. 1, 54-71.
 
  1. *Marcinkowska, U. M., Kozlov, M. V., Cai, H., Dixson, B. J., Guarduno, J. C., Gavita, O., Kaminski, G., Li, N., Onyishi, I. E., Prasai, K., Lyons, M. T., Pazhoohi, F., Prokop, P., Rosales, S., Sydney, N. V., & Rantala, M. J. 2014. Cross-cultural variation in men’s preferences for sexual dimorphism in women’s faces. Biology Letters, 10(4), 20130850.
 
  1. *Janif, J. Z., Brooks, R. C., & Dixson, B. J. 2014. Negative frequency-dependent preferences and variation in male facial hair. Biology Letters. 10(4), 20130958.
 
  1. Dixson, B. J., Grimshaw, G. M., Ormsby D. K., & Dixson, A. F. 2014 Eye-tracking women's preferences for men's somatotypes. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35, 73-79.
 
  1. Dixson B. J., Lester, P. J., Haywood, J., & Ormsby, D. K. 2013. Feeling the heat? Substantial variation in temperatures does not affect the proportion of males born in Australia. Human Biology: The International Journal of Population Genetics and Anthropology, 5, 757-767.  
 
  1. Dixson, B. J., & Brooks, R. C. 2013. The role of facial hair in women's perceptions of men's attractiveness, health, masculinity and parenting abilities. Evolution and Human Behavior, 34, 236-241. 
 
  1. Dixson B. J., Tam J., & Awasthy, M. 2013. Do women’s preferences for men’s facial hair change with reproductive status? Behavioral Ecology, 24, 708-716.
 
  1. Dixson B. J., Lester, P. J., Haywood, J., & Ormsby, D. K. 2013. Ambient temperature variation does not influence regional proportion of human male births in New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 43, 67-74.
 
  1. Dixson B. J., & Vasey, P. L. 2012. Beards augment perceptions of men’s aggressiveness, dominance and age, but not attractiveness. Behavioral Ecology, 23, 481-490.
 
  1. Dixson B. J., Haywood, J., Lester, P. J., & Ormsby, D. K. 2011. Whatever the weather: Ambient temperature does not influence the proportion of males born in New Zealand. PLoS ONE 6(9): e25064.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025064
 
  1. Dixson A. F., & Dixson B. J. 2011. Venus figurines of the European Palaeolithic: Symbols of fertility or attractiveness? Journal of Anthropology. doi:10.1155/2011/569120 
 
  1. Dixson, B. J., Vasey, P. L., Sagata, K., Sibanda, N., Linklater, W. L., & Dixson, A. F. 2011. Male preferences for female breast morphology in New Zealand, Samoa and Papua New Guinea. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40, 1271-1279.
 
  1. Dixson, B. J., Grimshaw, G. M., Linklater, W. L., & Dixson, A. F. 2011. Eye-tracking men’s preferences for female breast size and areola pigmentation. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40, 43-50.
 
  1. Dixson, B. J., Grimshaw, G. M., Linklater, W. L., & Dixson, A. F. 2011. Eye-tracking men’s preferences for waist-to-hip ratio and breast size of women. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 40, 51-58.
 
  1. Singh, D., Dixson, B. J., Jessop, T. S., Morgan, B., & Dixson, A. F. 2010. Cross-cultural consensus for waist-to-hip ratio and women’s attractiveness. Evolution and Human Behavior, 31, 176-181.
 
  1. Dixson, B. J., Grimshaw, G. M., Linklater, W. L., & Dixson, A. F. 2010. Watching the hourglass: Eye-tracking reveals men’s appreciation of the female form. Human Nature, 21, 355-370.
 
  1. Dixson, B. J., Sagata, K., Linklater, W. L., & Dixson, A. F. 2010. Male preferences for female waist-to-hip ratio and body Mass Index in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 141, 620-625.
 
  1. Dixson, B. J., Dixson, A. F, Bishop, P., & Parrish, A. 2010. Human Physique and Sexual Attractiveness in Men and Women: A New Zealand – U.S.A Comparative Study. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 39, 798-806.
 
  1. Dixson, B. J., Li, B., & Dixson, A. F. 2010. Female waist-to-hip ratio, body mass index and sexual attractiveness in China. Current Zoology, 56, 175-181.
 
  1. Dixson, B. J., Dixson, A. F., Li, B., & Anderson, M. J. 2007. Studies of Human Physique and Sexual Attractiveness: Sexual Preferences of Men and Women in China. American Journal of Human Biology, 19, 88-95.
 
  1. Dixson, B. J., Dixson, A. F., Morgan, B., & Anderson, M. J. 2007. Human Physique and Sexual Attractiveness: Sexual Preferences of Men and Women in Bakossiland, Cameroon. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 36, 369-375.
 
  1. Dixson, A. F., Dixson, B. J., & Anderson, M. J. 2005. Sexual selection and the evolution of visually conspicuous sexually dimorphic traits in male monkeys, apes, and human beings. Annual Review of Sex Research, 16, 1-17.