# Gillian Rhodes

Gillian Isobel Rhodes FASSA (born 1955) is an academic psychologist, and is a Winthrop Professor at the University of Western Australia. Rhodes works on facial recognition and perception. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Rhodes was awarded an Australian Research Council Distinguished Outstanding Researcher Award.

## Academic career

Rhodes completed a Bachelor's degree at the University of Canterbury, a Master of Science at the University of Auckland, with a thesis on facial perception, followed by a PhD titled Mental representations of faces at Stanford University. Rhodes has worked at the University of Otago and the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and most recently at the University of Western Australia, where she is a Winthrop Professor.
With Romina Palermo, Rhodes co-led the Person Perception programme of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, which ceased work in 2018.
Rhodes works on facial perception, and is particularly interested in the mechanisms through which people perceive faces, how these mechanisms develop during childhood, and how they can differ between individuals. Her work on whether women tell if a man is cheating from his appearance, and the relationship between semen quality and voice depth, received international attention.

## Honours and awards

Rhodes is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. She was elected a Fellow of the American Association for Psychological Science in 2011. She received the Golden Jubilee Special Award from the New Zealand Psychological Society in 1998, and in 1992 had been awarded their Hunter Award. Rhodes is an Australian Research Council Distinguished Outstanding Researcher.

## Selected works

* Gillian Rhodes (2006). "The evolutionary psychology of facial beauty". Annual Review of Psychology. 57: 199–226. doi:10.1146/ANNUREV.PSYCH.57.102904.190208. ISSN 0066-4308. PMID 16318594. Wikidata Q28284448.
* Romina Palermo; Gillian Rhodes (23 June 2006). "Are you always on my mind? A review of how face perception and attention interact". Neuropsychologia. 45 (1): 75–92. doi:10.1016/J.NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA.2006.04.025. ISSN 0028-3932. PMID 16797607. Wikidata Q36517409.
* Gillian Rhodes; Fiona Proffitt; Jonathon M. Grady; Alex Sumich (December 1998). "Facial symmetry and the perception of beauty". Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 5 (4): 659–669. doi:10.3758/BF03208842. ISSN 1069-9384. Wikidata Q121597657.
* G Rhodes; S Brake; Anthony P Atkinson (1 April 1993). "What's lost in inverted faces?". Cognition. 47 (1): 25–57. doi:10.1016/0010-0277(93)90061-Y. ISSN 0010-0277. PMID 8482070. Wikidata Q40901866.
* G Rhodes; S Brennan; S Carey (1 October 1987). "Identification and ratings of caricatures: implications for mental representations of faces". Cognitive Psychology. 19 (4): 473–497. doi:10.1016/0010-0285(87)90016-8. ISSN 0010-0285. PMID 3677584. Wikidata Q52073398.
* Gillian Rhodes; Leigh W. Simmons; Marianne Peters (March 2005). "Attractiveness and sexual behavior: Does attractiveness enhance mating success?". Evolution and Human Behavior. 26 (2): 186–201. doi:10.1016/J.EVOLHUMBEHAV.2004.08.014. ISSN 1090-5138. Wikidata Q56070334.
* Gillian Rhodes; Janelle Chan; Leslie A Zebrowitz; Leigh W Simmons (7 August 2003). "Does sexual dimorphism in human faces signal health?". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 270 Suppl 1 (Suppl_1): S93-5. doi:10.1098/RSBL.2003.0023. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 1698019. PMID 12952647. Wikidata Q24673142.
* Gillian Rhodes; Grace Morley; Leigh W. Simmons (5 December 2012). "Women can judge sexual unfaithfulness from unfamiliar men's faces". Biology Letters. 9 (1): 20120908. doi:10.1098/RSBL.2012.0908. ISSN 1744-9561. PMC 3565506. PMID 23221873. Wikidata Q36590526.
* Leigh W Simmons; Marianne Peters; Gillian Rhodes (21 December 2011). "Low pitched voices are perceived as masculine and attractive but do they predict semen quality in men?". PLOS One. 6 (12): e29271. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...629271S. doi:10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0029271. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3244455. PMID 22216228. Wikidata Q30471672.