Role
Jamie Whitehouse is a Senior Lecturer within the Department of Psychology. He his is currently PI for the Leverhulme Trust funded project, the Evolutionary Origins of Mapping Social Connections.
In the past, he has worked under PI Prof. Bridget Waller on the European Research Council (ERC) funded project: FACEDIFF. In the past, Jamie's work has focused primarily on social behaviour and communication in non-human primates and in his current role, he aims to uncover the evolutionary origins of individual differences in facial expression through comparative research on macaque monkeys.
Jamie is a member of the Evolution and Social Interaction Research Group and Treasurer (and trustee) of the Primate Society of Great Britain
Research areas
I am happy to support research and postgraduate students on the following topics:
- Animal social behaviour
- Human and non-human facial expressions
- Social cognition
- Stress and stress-associated behaviour
- Social networks
Publications
Waller, B. M., & Whitehouse, J. (2026). Making faces. Science, 391(6781), 124-125.
O’Callaghan, O., Whitehouse, J., Rees, K., & Waller, B. M. (2026). Direction and expressivity of faces impact third-party social attention in rhesus macaques. Animal Behaviour, 233, 123492.
Milward, S. J., & Whitehouse, J. (2025). Co-representation breaks down beyond the dyad in UK adults. PLoS One, 20(2), e0318545.
Waller, B. M., Whitehouse, J., & Kavanagh, E. (2025). Facial expression is a group cohesion solution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 48, e187.
Kimock, C. M., Ritchie, C., Whitehouse, J., Witham, C., Tierney, C. M., Jeffery, N., ... & Burrows, A. M. (2025). Linking individual variation in facial musculature to facial behavior in rhesus macaques. The Anatomical Record, 308(12), 3105-3121.
Waller, B. M., O’Callaghan, O., Micheletta, J., & Whitehouse, J. (2025). Facial expression production and perception in non-human primates. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1-13.
O’Callaghan, O., Whitehouse, J., Paukner, A., Witham, C. L., & Waller, B. M. (2025). Maternal care predicts facial expression processing in macaques. iScience, 28(4).
Whitehouse, J., Clark, P. R., Robinson, R. L., Rees, K., O’Callaghan, O., Kimock, C. M., ... & Waller, B. M. (2024). Facial expressivity in dominant macaques is linked to group cohesion. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 291(2027), 20240984.
Kavanagh, E., Whitehouse, J., & Waller, B. M. (2024). Being facially expressive is socially advantageous. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 12798.
Whitehouse, J., Clark, P. R., Micheletta, J., Liebal, K., Slocombe, K. E., & Waller, B. M. (2024). Pseudoreplication in primate communication research: 10 years on. International journal of primatology, 45(2), 246-258.
Whitehouse, J., Milward, S.J., Marker, M.O.,Kavanagh, E. & Waller, B. M. (2022). The signal value of stress behaviour. Evolution and Human Behaviour.
Waller, B. M., Kavanagh, E., Micheletta, J., Clark, P. R., & Whitehouse, J. (2022). The face is central to primate multicomponent signals. International Journal of Primatology, 1-17.
Ballesta, S., Sadoughi, B., Miss, F., Whitehouse, J., Aguenounon, G., & Meunier, H. (2021). Assessing the reliability of an automated method for measuring dominance hierarchy in non-human primates. Primates, 1-13.
Julle-Danière, E., Whitehouse, J., Vrij, A., Gustafsson, E., & Waller, B. M. (2020). The social function of the feeling and expression of guilt. Royal Society open science, 7(12), 200617.
Whitehouse, J., & Meunier, H. (2020). An understanding of third-party friendships in a tolerant macaque. Scientific reports, 10(1), 1-11.
Julle-Danière, E., Whitehouse, J., Mielke, A., Vrij, A., Gustafsson, E., Micheletta, J., & Waller, B. M. (2020). Are there non-verbal signals of guilt?. PLoS One, 15(4), e0231756.
Waller, B. M., Whitehouse, J., & Micheletta, J. (2017). Rethinking primate facial expression: A predictive framework. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 82, 13-21.
Whitehouse, J., Micheletta, J., & Waller, B. M. (2017). Stress behaviours buffer macaques from aggression. Scientific reports, 7(1), 1-9.
Whitehouse, J., Micheletta, J., Kaminski, J., & Waller, B. M. (2016). Macaques attend to scratching in others. Animal behaviour, 122, 169-175.
Waller, B. M., Whitehouse, J., & Micheletta, J. (2016). Macaques can predict social outcomes from facial expressions. Animal cognition, 19(5), 1031-1036.
Julle-Daniere, E., Micheletta, J., Whitehouse, J., Joly, M., Gass, C., Burrows, A. M., & Waller, B. M. (2015). MaqFACS (Macaque Facial Action Coding System) can be used to document facial movements in Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus). PeerJ, 3, e1248.
Micheletta, J., Whitehouse, J., Parr, L. A., & Waller, B. M. (2015). Facial expression recognition in crested macaques (Macaca nigra). Animal Cognition, 18(4), 985-990.
Micheletta, J., Whitehouse, J., Parr, L. A., Marshman, P., Engelhardt, A., & Waller, B. M. (2015). Familiar and unfamiliar face recognition in crested macaques (Macaca nigra). Royal Society open science, 2(5), 150109.
Whitehouse, J., Waller, B. M., Chanvin, M., Wallace, E. K., Schel, A. M., Peirce, K., ... & Slocombe, K. (2014). Evaluation of public engagement activities to promote science in a zoo environment. PloS one, 9(11), e113395.
Waller, B. M., Misch, A., Whitehouse, J., & Herrmann, E. (2014). Children, but not chimpanzees, have facial correlates of determination. Biology Letters, 10(3), 20130974.
Whitehouse, J., Micheletta, J., Powell, L. E., Bordier, C., & Waller, B. M. (2013). The impact of cognitive testing on the welfare of group housed primates. PLoS one, 8(11), e78308.