Current Members

• 
  Dr Khandis Blake

  Director of Lab

  Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

  +61 3 9035 5733

  khandis.blake@unimelb.edu.au

• 
  Tee Schofield, PhD

  Data Scientist

  Big data, statistics, website scraping

• 
  Lindsie Arthur

  PhD Candidate

  Menstrual cycle, sex hormones, wellbeing, applied psychology

• 
  Tomas Cartmill

  PhD Candidate

  Radical extremism, deradicalization, political ideology, emotions

• 
  Francesca Luberti

  PhD Candidate - Sydney

  Socio-political attitudes, mating market, mating competition, mate value, sexuality

• 
  Dax Kellie

  PhD Candidate - Sydney

  Objectification, sexual double standards, evolution and patriarchy, open science

• 
  Meg Trinder-McCartney

  Honours Candidate 2020

  Menstrual cycle, sex hormones, wellbeing

• 
  Sarah Zhang

  Honours Candidate 2020

  Income inequality, status anxiety, sexualization

• 
  Freya Satarawala

  Research Intern

  Female competition, methods

• 
  Alsa Wu

  Research Intern

  Interpersonal influences, menstrual cycle, sex hormones

• 
  Melody Ooi

  Research Intern

  Female competition, methods

Collaborators

Dr Gulnaz Anjum, Institute of Business Administration, Pakistan

Dr Tania Reynolds, The Kinsey Institute Indiana

Dr Kathleen Casto, New College Florida

Professor Steven Gangestad, University of New Mexico

Professor Rob Brooks, University of New South Wales, Sydney

Professor Thomas Denson, University of New South Wales, Sydney

A/Prof Michael Kasumovic, University of New South Wales, Sydney

Ms Siobhan O’Dean, University of New South Wales, Sydney

Dr Stephen Whyte, Queensland University of Technology

Dr Barnaby Dixson, The University of Queensland

Dr Isabel Krug, University of Melbourne

Dr Scott Griffiths, University of Melbourne

Professor Brock Bastian, University of Melbourne

Blake, KR, Dixson, BJW, O'Dean, SM, & Denson, TF (2016). Standardized protocols for characterizing women's fertility: A data-driven approach. Hormones and behavior, 81, 74-83

Denson, TF, O’Dean, SM, Blake, KR, & Beames, JR (2018). Aggression in women: behavior, brain and hormones. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 12, 81

Blake, KR, Yih, J, Zhao, K, Sung, B, & Harmon-Jones, C (2017). Skin-transmitted pathogens and the heebie jeebies: evidence for a subclass of disgust stimuli that evoke a qualitatively unique emotional response. Cognition and emotion, 31(6), 1153-1168

Kasumovic, MM, Blake, K, Dixson, BJ, & Denson, TF (2015). Why do people play violent video games? Demographic, status-related, and mating-related correlates in men and women. Personality and Individual Differences, 86, 204-211

Blake, KR, Bastian, B, O’Dean, SM, & Denson, TF (2017). High estradiol and low progesterone are associated with high assertiveness in women. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 75, 91-99

Dixson, BJW, Blake, KR, Denson, TF, Gooda-Vossos, A, O’Dean, SM, & ... (2018). The role of mating context and fecundability in women’s preferences for men’s facial masculinity and beardedness. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 93, 90-102

Dixson, BJW, Lee, AJ, Blake, KR, Jasienska, G, & Marcinkowska, UM (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

Blake, KR, Bastian, B, & Denson, TF (2016). Perceptions of low agency and high sexual openness mediate the relationship between sexualization and sexual aggression. Aggressive behavior, 42(5), 483-497

Blake, KR, Bastian, B, Denson, TF, Grosjean, P, & Brooks, RC (2018). Income inequality not gender inequality positively covaries with female sexualization on social media. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(35), 8722-8727

Blake, KR, Dixson, BJW, O'Dean, SM, & Denson, TF (2017). No compelling positive association between ovarian hormones and wearing red clothing when using multinomial analyses. Hormones and behavior, 90, 129-135

Blake, KR, Hopkins, RE, Sprunger, JG, Eckhardt, CI, & Denson, TF (2018). Relationship quality and cognitive reappraisal moderate the effects of negative urgency on behavioral inclinations toward aggression and intimate partner violence.. Psychology of violence, 8(2), 218

Blake, KR, Bastian, B, & Denson, TF (2018). Heightened male aggression toward sexualized women following romantic rejection: The mediating role of sex goal activation. Aggressive behavior, 44(1), 40-49

Blake, KR, Fourati, M, & Brooks, RC (2018). Who suppresses female sexuality? An examination of support for Islamic veiling in a secular Muslim democracy as a function of sex and offspring sex. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(6), 632-638

Jones, B, DeBruine, L, Flake, J, Aczel, B, Adamkovic, M, Alaei, R, Alper, S, & ... (2018). To Which World Regions Does the Valence-Dominance Model of Social Perception Apply?(Registered Report Stage 1). Nature Human Behaviour, (In-press)

Blake, KR (2018). Resolving speculations of methodological inadequacies in the standardized protocol for characterizing women's fertility: Comment on Lobmaier and Bachofner (2018). Hormones and behavior 106, A4-A, 6

Kasumovic, MM, Blake, K, & Denson, TF (2017). Using knowledge from human research to improve understanding of contest theory and contest dynamics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284(1869), 20172182

Luberti, FR, Blake, KR, & Brooks, RC (2020). The Effects of the Mating Market, Sex, Age, and Income on Sociopolitical Orientation: Insights from Evolutionary Theory and Sexual Economics Theory.. Human nature (Hawthorne, NY)

Blake, KR, & Brooks, RC (2019). Status anxiety mediates the positive relationship between income inequality and sexualization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(50), 25029-25033

Brooks, RC, & Blake, KR (2019). Gendered Fitness Interests: A Method Partitioning the Effects of Family Composition on Socio-Political Attitudes and Behaviors. bioRxiv, 847814

Blake, K, & Brooks, RC (2019). Income Inequality and Reproductive Competition: Implications for Consumption, Status-Seeking, and Women’s Self-Sexualization. The Social Psychology of Inequality, 173-185

Kellie, DJ, Blake, KR, & Brooks, RC (2019). What drives female objectification? An investigation of appearance-based interpersonal perceptions and the objectification of women. PloS one, 14(8)

Blake, KR, & Brooks, RC (2018). High mate value men become more accepting of intimate partner abuse when primed with gender equality. Frontiers in Sociology, 3, 28

Blake, K, Denson, TF, Dixson, B, & O'Dean, S (2016). Electronic supplementary materials. OSF

Blake, KR, & Denson, TF (2016). Contexts for men’s aggression against men. Review of General Psychology, 8(4), 291-322

Luberti, FR, Blake, KR, & Brooks, RC The Effects of the Mating Market, Sex, Age, and Income on Sociopolitical Orientation. Human Nature, 1-24,