Bernhard Fink is a Heisenberg Fellow of the German Science Foundation (DFG), currently located at the University of Göttingen, Germany. His interdisciplinary research spans both biology and psychology, with a focus on human social perception and mating behavior. He is best known for his work on facial attractiveness and digit ratio (2D:4D) and, more recently, for his work on the perception of human body movement.
Educational Background
Inspired by The Adaptive Mind, which had just been published, Fink studied biology and psychology at the University of Vienna, Austria. He earned his M.S. in Biology (Anthropology) in 2001 and his Ph.D. (with honors) in Natural Sciences in 2003 – both from the University of Vienna, under the mentorship of Karl Grammer.
Professional Career
From 2003 to 2005, Fink worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vienna, Department of Anthropology, on a project investigating human sexual dimorphism in stature, funded by the Austrian National Bank. In...
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Butovskaya, M. L., Burkova, V., Karelin, D., & Fink, B. (2015). Digit ratio (2D:4D), aggression, and dominance in the Hadza and the Datoga of Tanzania. American Journal of Human Biology, 27(5), 620–627.
Fink, B., & Penton-Voak, I. S. (2002). Evolutionary psychology of facial attractiveness. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11(5), 154–158.
Fink, B., Grammer, K., & Thornhill, R. (2001). Human (Homo sapiens) facial attractiveness in relation to skin texture and color. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 115(1), 92–99.
Fink, B., Manning, J. T., Neave, N., & Grammer, K. (2004). Second to fourth digit ratio and facial asymmetry. Evolution and Human Behavior, 25(2), 125–132.
Fink, B., Grammer, K., Mitteröcker, P., Gunz, P., Schäfer, K., Bookstein, F. L., & Manning, J. T. (2005). Second to fourth digit ratio and face shape. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 272, 1995–2001.
Fink, B., Grammer, K., & Matts, P. J. (2006a). Visual skin color distribution plays a role in the perception of age, attractiveness, and health of female faces. Evolution and Human Behavior, 27(6), 433–442.
Fink, B., Neave, N., Grammer, K., & Manning, J. T. (2006b). Facial symmetry and judgements of attractiveness, health and personality. Personality & Individual Differences, 41(3), 491–499.
Fink, B., Neave, N., & Seydel, H. (2007a). Male facial appearance signals physical strength to women. American Journal of Human Biology, 19(1), 82–87.
Fink, B., Neave, N., Brewer, G., & Pawlowski, B. (2007b). Variable preferences for sexual dimorphism in stature (SDS): Further evidence for an adjustment in relation to own height. Personality & Individual Differences, 43(8), 2249–2257.
Fink, B., Täschner, K., Hugill, N., Neave, N., & Dane, L. (2010). Male faces and bodies: Evidence for a condition-dependent ornament that signals quality. Personality & Individual Differences, 49(5), 436–440.
Fink, B., Hugill, N., & Lange, B. P. (2012). Women’s body movements are a potential cue to ovulation. Personality & Individual Differences, 53(6), 759–763.
Fink, B., Weege, B., Manning, J. T., & Trivers, R. (2014). Body symmetry and physical strength in human males. American Journal of Human Biology, 26(5), 697–700.
Fink, B., Weege, B., Neave, N., Pham, M. N., & Shackelford, T. K. (2015). Integrating body movement into attractiveness research. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 220.
Grammer, K., Fink, B., Møller, A. P., & Thornhill, R. (2003). Darwinian aesthetics: Sexual selection and the biology of beauty. Biological Reviews, 78(3), 385–407.
Johnston, V. S., Hagel, R., Franklin, M., Fink, B., & Grammer, K. (2001). Male facial attractiveness: Evidence for hormone mediated adaptive design. Evolution and Human Behavior, 22(4), 251–267.
Manning, J. T., & Fink, B. (2008). Digit ratio (2D:4D), dominance, reproductive success, asymmetry, sociosexuality, and sexual orientation in the BBC internet study. American Journal of Human Biology, 20(4), 451–461.
Manning, J. T., & Fink, B. (2011). Digit ratio (2D:4D) and aggregate personality scores across nations: Data from the BBC internet study. Personality & Individual Differences, 51(4), 387–391.
Matts, P. J., & Fink, B. (2010). Chronic sun damage and the perception of age, health and attractiveness. Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, 9(4), 421–431.
Neave, N., McCarty, K., Freynik, J., Caplan, N., Hönekopp, J., & Fink, B. (2011). Male dance moves that catch a woman’s eye. Biology Letters, 7, 221–224.
Röder, S., Fink, B., & Jones, B. C. (2013). Facial, olfactory, and vocal cues to female reproductive value. Evolutionary Psychology, 11(2), 392–404.
Trivers, R., Fink, B., Russell, M., McCarty, K., James, B., & Palestis, B. G. (2014). Lower body symmetry and running performance in elite Jamaican track and field athletes. PLoS ONE, 9(11), e113106.
Weege, B., Pham, M. N., Shackelford, T. K., & Fink, B. (2015). Physical strength and dance attractiveness: Further evidence for an association in men, but not in women. American Journal of Human Biology, 27(5), 728–730.
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Fink, B. (2020). Fink, Bernhard. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_1697
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