Individual differences in facial expressivity: Social function, facial anatomy and evolutionary origins

Project Information

FACEDIFF

Grant agreement ID: 864694

DOI

10.3030/864694

Project closed

EC signature date 27 February 2020

Start date 1 April 2020

End date 31 March 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 994 445,00

EU contribution

€ 1 994 445,00

Coordinated by

THE NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY
United Kingdom

CORDIS provides links to public deliverables and publications of HORIZON projects.

Links to deliverables and publications from FP7 projects, as well as links to some specific result types such as dataset and software, are dynamically retrieved from OpenAIRE .

Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

Crested macaque facial movements are more intense and stereotyped in potentially risky social interactions

Author(s): Peter R. Clark , Bridget M. Waller, Muhammad Agil, Jerome Micheletta
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2022, ISSN 1471-2970
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0307

Personality Traits Predict Social Network Size in Older Adults

Author(s): Jasmine Rollings, Jerome Micheletta, Darren VAN LAAR, Bridget M. Waller
Published in: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2022, ISSN 0146-1672
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/01461672221078664

Maternal care predicts facial expression processing in macaques

Author(s): Olivia O’Callaghan, Jamie Whitehouse, Annika Paukner, Claire L. Witham, Bridget M. Waller
Published in: iScience, Issue 28, 2025, Page(s) 112179, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.112179

Pseudoreplication in Primate Communication Research: 10 Years On

Author(s): J. Whitehouse, P. R. Clark, J. Micheletta, K. Liebal, K. E. Slocombe, B. M. Waller
Published in: International Journal of Primatology, Issue 45, 2024, Page(s) 246-258, ISSN 0164-0291
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10764-023-00399-y

Being facially expressive is socially advantageous

Author(s): Eithne Kavanagh, Jamie Whitehouse, Bridget M. Waller
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 14, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-62902-6

The face is central to primate multicomponent signals

Author(s): Bridget M. Waller, Eithne Kavanagh, Jerome Micheletta, Peter R. Clark, Jamie Whitehouse
Published in: International Journal of Primatology, 2022, ISSN 0164-0291
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10764-021-00260-0

Facially Expressive People are More Popular in Newly Formed Groups: A Social Network Analysis

Author(s): Alisa Balabanova, Eithne Kavanagh, Tom Kupfer, Bridget Waller
Published in: Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 2026, ISSN 0191-5886
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10919-026-00514-6

Linking individual variation in facial musculature to facial behavior in rhesus macaques

Author(s): Clare M. Kimock, Charles Ritchie, Jamie Whitehouse, Claire Witham, Claire M. Tierney, Nathan Jeffery, Bridget M. Waller, Anne M. Burrows
Published in: The Anatomical Record, Issue 308, 2025, Page(s) 3105-3121, ISSN 1932-8486
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/ar.25650

Facial expression production and perception in non-human primates

Author(s): Bridget M. Waller, Olivia O’Callaghan, Jérôme Micheletta, Jamie Whitehouse
Published in: Nature Reviews Psychology, Issue 4, 2025, Page(s) 457-469, ISSN 2731-0574
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s44159-025-00462-w

Direction and expressivity of faces impact third-party social attention in rhesus macaques

Author(s): Olivia O’Callaghan, J. Whitehouse, K. Rees, B.M. Waller
Published in: Animal Behaviour, Issue 233, 2026, Page(s) 123492, ISSN 0003-3472
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2026.123492

Signal value of stress behaviour

Author(s): Jamie Whitehouse, Sophie J. Milward, Matthew O. Parker, Eithne Kavanagh, Bridget M. Waller
Published in: Evolution and Human Behaviour, Issue 43 (4), 2022, Page(s) 325-333, ISSN 1879-0607
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.04.001

Facial behaviour and first impressions in computer mediated communication

Author(s): Jasmine Rollings, Eithne Kavanagh, Alisa Balabanova, Olivia Keane, Bridget M. Waller
Published in: Computers in Human Behavior, Issue 161, 2025, Page(s) 108391, ISSN 0747-5632
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2024.108391

Facial expressivity in dominant macaques is linked to group cohesion

Author(s): J. Whitehouse, P. R. Clark, R. L. Robinson, K. Rees, O. O’Callaghan, C. M. Kimock, C. L. Witham, B. M. Waller
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 291, 2024, ISSN 1471-2954
Publisher: Royal Society Publishing
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.0984

The social function of the feeling and expression of guilt

Author(s): Eglantine Julle-Daniere, Jamie Whitehouse, Aldert Vrij, Erik Gustafsson, Bridget M. Waller
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, 2020, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.200617

Revisiting Darwin’s comparisons between human and non-human primate facial signals

Author(s): Eithne Kavanagh; Clare Kimock; Jamie Whitehouse; Jerome Micheletta; Bridget M. Waller
Published in: Evolutionary Human Sciences, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2513-843X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2022.26