FaceResearch.org is run by Lisa DeBruine and Ben Jones, who run the Face Research Lab at the University of Glasgow Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology. We're experimental psychologists working at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. We're interested in how people read faces and the ways in which this relates to experiences they have during their life.

The initial programming of this website was done by Lisa DeBruine while she was employed under a US National Science Foundation International Fellowship (award #0401951).

Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed on this website are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Sometimes people can't login because they don't have cookies enabled on their web browser, but this does not seem to be your problem. Make sure you are typing in your username and password exactly the same as when you registered. Go to the password retrieval form if you can't remember your password. If you still have problems logging in, please e-mail us at the address below.

Yes. Just click on My Account. You can change your username to any unused name. This will not affect the experiments you've already done. The form allows you to change your password or your password retrival question and answer. You can also change your birthdate or sex if you entered them incorrectly when registering. Having accurate information about your age and sex are very important to our scientific research.

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If you have not yet set your password retrieval question and answer, you can do so at My Account if you are logged in. Unfortunately, this won't help if you can't remember your password. You can e-mail us with your username and IP address and we can see what we can do. Otherwise, you may just have to register using a different username.

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No. We have worked hard to make sure that FaceResearch.org is accessible to all people using visual browsers (we are working on better support for audio-only browsers to access the parts of FaceResearch.org that do not require the viewing of images). If the website looks strange in your favourite browser, please e-mail us and let us know. If you are looking for a new web browser, FireFox is an excellent free browser for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Our JavaScript does not pose a security risk, will never produce ads or pop-ups, and is not used to take any information from your computer or save any files to your computer.

We use JavaScript to perform some calculations needed to randomise trial order which prevents you having to load a new web page for every trial and greatly speeds up the experiments. It also allows us to collect more accurate data on how long the experiments take.

For research use, we can only provide images for our close collaborators. See the PAL database for a large, free, online face database.

We receive hundreds of requests for stimuli each month, so it is not possible to respond individually to each request.

For use of images to illustrate scientific reporting, please contact us by email. We can usually provide high-quality versions of existing images with the condition that all images be credited to faceresearch.org and an active link be included in online presentation of images. Please ask about custom work.

We host experiments for some of our collaborators. We can set up a data collection page where you can log in and view the data. If you would like to discuss such opportunities, please contact us at the e-mail address below.

We carry out tests to assess the characteristics people find attractive in faces and voices. We use the answers to the questionnaires to see how things like lifestyle relate to your preferences for the faces and voices. Summaries of our findings will be posted on this website after we have finished collecting data for each experiment.

All of your responses are confidential and anonymous. Although we will present average results for our tests, we will never make the answers of a single person public. Your data are stored on a secure server and we will never ask for identifying data, such as your email address, in a way that can link it to your user data. If you have any concerns about the security or the use of your data, do not hesitate to contact us.

We use Dr Bernard Tiddeman's PsychoMorph to manipulate faces. We use Praat to manipulate voices.

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