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Faculty Member, Institute of Psychological Sciences
Senior Lecturer in Human and Animal Ethology
About
My research interests focus on examining human behaviour in its zoological context by applying the ethological method to our species.
Ethology asks questions about form, function, ontogeny and phylogeny and this approach has been applied to morphological signals such as teeth and breasts; behaviours - such as those expressed in nightclubs and mental illness, especially depression. The ethological approach shows clearly that depression is a cluster of defensive behaviours and the disruption of sleep and appetite has led to the development of the theory that this is an evolutionary adaptation organised around the Third ventricle.
There has been extensive media coverage of several studies - to with (i) clothing as a means for females to control flesh exposure and attract male attention, (ii) mouth to mouth kissing and (iii) females' strategic use of vocalisations during sex.
Some of this is linked below;
NB: I turned down the invitation to go on the BBC Radio 4 programme 'Woman's Hour' to talk about (iii)
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(i) http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/2734953/We-judge-celeb-l
(ii) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6471483/Kissin
(iii) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38006774/ns/health-sexual_health/t/sorry-g
Contact Information
| Homepage: | http://www.psyc.leeds.ac.uk/cgi-bin/10/people/inde |
| Address: | Institute of Psychological Sciences, |
