OracleLab.co.uk is the online psychology lab of Rob Burriss (real labs are overrated - you have to hoover them and everything).

I received my PhD in 2007 from the University of Liverpool, where I studied under John Lycett and Tony Little. Right now I'm a research associate in David Puts' lab at Penn State. You can view my CV here.

I'm interested in how people use information from faces to inform their mate-choice and mate-retention behaviours. I try to answer questions like: Can we tell if someone's ovulating just by looking at them? Do opposites really attract? Do we fancy people partly because we know others fancy them? Do chicks dig scars? I've also been known to idly ponder the relative importance of the face and body when it comes to attractiveness. After conducting some laborious analyses I think I've come up with the answer. (Or you might want the real answer.)

I produce the monthly Psychology of Attractiveness Podcast, which is aimed at people who like the Nature podcast but wish it was (a) a bit less 'sciency', (b) presented by a bald man, and (c) recorded in a cupboard under a blanket. I also recently started another podcast, One Minute Ev Psych.

Email me at rob [insert at sign] oraclelab[.]co[.]uk. Unless you're an Internet weirdo, in which case I'd rather you didn't (I scare easily, like a crab).