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ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Katrin Schäfer
Katrin Schäfer

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Windhager, S., Bookstein, F., Grammer, K., Thorstensen, T., & Schäfer, K. (2009). Principles of growth perception: does the human face processing pathway generalize to cars? American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 138(S48), 274-275.

Schäfer, K., Bookstein, F., Fink, B., & Mitteroecker, P. (2009). Psychomorphometry: Towards an integrative assessment of human facial form and function. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 138, 48-128.

Schäfer, K., Bookstein, F., Fink, B., & Mitteröcker, P. (2009). Psychomorphometry: Towards a novel assessment of human facial form and function. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Schäfer, K., Mitteröcker, P., Fink, B., & Bookstein, F. (2009). Psychomorphomospace -- from biology to perception and back. Biological Theory: integrating development, evolution & cognition, 4(1), 68-106.


Windhager, S., Slice, D., Schäfer, K., Oberzaucher, E., Thorstensen, T., & Grammer, K. (2008). Car fronts as (human) faces: Overperception errors as evolutionary stable strategy? In M. Costa, & S. Tampellini (Eds.), Abstracts of the XIX Biennial Conference of the International Society for Human Ethology: Alma Mater Studiorum. University of Bologna. Italy. July 13 – 18, 2008 (pp. 54-55). International Society for Human Ethology.


Windhager, S., Slice, D. E., Schäfer, K., Oberzaucher, E., Thorstensen, T., & Grammer, K. (2008). Face to Face: the perception of automotive designs. Human Nature: an interdisciplinary biosocial perspective, 19(4), 331-346. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-008-9047-z

Schäfer, K., Fink, B., Windhager, S., & Bookstein, F. (2008). From biology to perception by way of the face: the role of geometric morphometrics in interdisciplinary ethological studies. In M. Costa, & S. Tampellini (Eds.), 19th International Conference of the International Society for Human Ethology, Bologna, Italy CLUEB (pp. 163-164). Unknown publisher.

Windhager, S., Slice, D. E., Bookstein, F., Thorstensen, T., Grammer, K., & Schäfer, K. (2008). Generalizing morphological correlates of maturity: Visualization and perception. In 16th Congress of the European Anthropological Association, Odense, Denmark. pp. 160



Seidler, H., Schäfer, K., Teschler-Nicola, M., Viola, T. B., & Derevianko, A. (2008). Postcranial remains from Okladnikov Cave, Siberia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, (135/S46), 214-215.

Schäfer, K., Fink, B., Neave, N., & Bookstein, F. (2008). Psychomorphometry: towards a novel assessment of human facial form and function. In 16th Congress of the European Anthropological Association University Press of Southern Denmark.


Schäfer, K. (2008). Schöner als ein Aff. Television show

Jonke, E., Prossinger, H., Bookstein, F., Schäfer, K., Bernhard, M., & Freudenthaler, J. W. (2008). Secular trends of the European male facial skull from the migration period to the present: a cephalometric study. European Journal of Orthodontics, 30(6), 614-620. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejo/cjn065



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A medium-height premium? Attributed competence peaks while dominance rises linearly in body height-calibrated male faces in a WEIRD population

Windhager, S. (Speaker), Kronsteiner, K. (Contributor) & Schäfer, K. (Contributor)

9 Jun 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


neugier!wissen!schafft

Schäfer, K. (Selected presenter)

26 Mar 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Soziale Wahrnehmung im Fokus: Synergieeffekte von Evolutionärer Anthropologie & Verhaltensbiologie

Schäfer, K. (Invited speaker)

22 Jan 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


First impressions from faces in the WEIRDs

Windhager, S. (Invited speaker) & Schäfer, K. (Invited speaker)

2024 → …

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Male facial cues to high stature among Europeans and Maasai augment perceptions of aggressiveness

Schäfer, K. (Speaker), Butovskaya, M. L. (Contributor), Mabulla, A. Z. P. (Contributor), Fink, B. (Contributor) & Windhager, S. (Speaker)

2024 → …

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Male facial cues to low muscular strength elevate attributed aggressiveness within and beyond Europeans

Windhager, S. (Speaker), Fink, B. (Contributor), Butovskaya, M. L. (Contributor), Mabulla, A. Z. P. (Contributor) & Schäfer, K. (Contributor)

2024 → …

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Beautiful is good? Geometric morphometrics depicts children’s facial appearance in relation to expected grades by prospective and current teachers

Windhager, S. (Speaker), Graduates of the Bachelorseminar for students of the teacher program Biology Consortium (Contributor) & Schäfer, K. (Contributor)

15 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Calibrated morphs: Eyeopeners in impression formation

Schäfer, K. (Speaker)

29 Apr 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


neugier!wissen!schafft

Schäfer, K. (Selected presenter)

30 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Facial Appearance Shapes Teachers’ Assessments at Zero-Acquaintance: Lessons from Geometric Morphometrics

Windhager, S. (Speaker), Graduates of the Bachelorseminar for students of the teacher program Biology Consortium (Contributor) & Schäfer, K. (Contributor)

26 May 202127 May 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The little difference

Schäfer, K. (Invited speaker)

12 Apr 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


neugier!wissen!schafft

Schäfer, K. (Selected presenter)

6 Nov 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


10 Years Psychomorphospace: Achievements and Prospects.

Schäfer, K. (Keynote speaker)

27 Mar 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Evolutionary Aspects of Human Social Behavior

Schäfer, K. (Invited speaker)

7 Dec 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Facial aging is sex-specific

Windhager, S. (Invited speaker), Mitteroecker, P. (Speaker), Rupic, I. (Speaker), Lauc, T. (Speaker), Polasek, O. (Speaker) & Schäfer, K. (Speaker)

2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Predicting age at death from the human pubic symphysis

Bravo Morante, G. (Speaker), Schäfer, K. (Contributor) & Bookstein, F. (Contributor)

2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Shaping rating studies: social perception of facial morphs calibrated by body fat

Windhager, S. (Speaker), Bookstein, F. (Contributor) & Schäfer, K. (Contributor)

2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


neugier!wissen!schafft

Schäfer, K. (Selected presenter)

30 Nov 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Commentary on Anthony Little, plenary

Schäfer, K. (Invited speaker)

18 Nov 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Psychomorphospace: An instrument to explain first impressions by biological causes of facial shape variation

Schäfer, K. (Invited speaker)

15 Sept 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Geometric morphometrics: A powerful tool to compare aesthetic experience and biological causes of facial shape variation

Schäfer, K. (Speaker)

29 Aug 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Geometric morphometrics: A powerful link between biological causes of facial shape variation and impression formation

Schäfer, K. (Speaker)

25 Aug 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Human biophilia–a glimpse into the past?

Schäfer, K. (Speaker)

11 Sept 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Comparative Primatology: Genetic analyses of dopamine receptors, dopamine transporter and catechol-o-methyl transferase according to the mesolimbic reward system

Wallner, B. (Speaker), Windhager, S. (Contributor), Schäfer, K. (Contributor), Schaschl, H. (Contributor) & Fieder, M. (Contributor)

9 Apr 201511 Apr 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Genetic variation at candidate genes involved in the determination of the human face are not associated with facial fluctuating asymmetry

Schaschl, H. (Speaker), Windhager, S. (Contributor), Schäfer, K. (Contributor), Mitteroecker, P. (Contributor), Huber, S. (Contributor), Wallner, B. (Contributor) & Fieder, M. (Contributor)

6 Jan 20159 Jan 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Facial masculinity concepts reconsidered: a tribute to biology

Schäfer, K. (Speaker)

5 Aug 20149 Aug 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Single nucleotide polymorphisms: a promising approach to homozygosity and facial asymmetry?

Schäfer, K. (Speaker)

30 Jul 20142 Aug 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


It’s in their face: quantifying ontogenetic and static allometry in human male faces.

Windhager, S. (Speaker), Schäfer, K. (Contributor) & Mitteroecker, P. (Speaker)

8 Jul 201312 Jul 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


In the face of time: a geometric morphometric approach to growth and ageing in the male face

Schäfer, K. (Contributor)

15 Nov 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Phenotypic plasticity: prenatal androgen exposure and other environmental conditions determining aspects of facial shape

Schäfer, K. (Invited speaker)

15 Nov 201217 Nov 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Evolutionary approaches to human facial attractiveness: Concepts and data

Schäfer, K. (Invited speaker)

12 Oct 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Eye catchers: direct behavioral observation of responses to social and natural stimuli in a real-life situation

Schäfer, K. (Contributor)

13 Aug 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Digit ratio and facial shape: companions for life?

Schäfer, K. (Speaker)

13 Jun 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Facial characteristics taking shape: Contributions of Geometric Morphometrics to current topics in face researc

Schäfer, K. (Invited speaker)

25 May 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Characteristics of the face and what they mean: Lessons from Geometric Morphometrics

Schäfer, K. (Invited speaker)

13 Jun 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Psychomorphospace—Mapping perception onto morphology with geometric morphometrics (applied to aging).

Schäfer, K. (Contributor)

16 Jun 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Multidisciplinary approaches for the study of cultural heritage: the example of virtual anthropology.

Schäfer, K. (Contributor)

2 Dec 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Kooperation und Globalisierung. Der „Homo Sociobiologicus“: Evolution der Kooperation beim Menschen.

Schäfer, K. (Invited speaker)

29 May 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Sexualdimorphismus bei Homo sapiens.

Schäfer, K. (Invited speaker)

29 Apr 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Principles of growth perception: does the human face processing pathway generalize to cars?

Schäfer, K. (Contributor)

1 Apr 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Psychomorphometry: Towards a novel assessment of human facial form and function.

Schäfer, K. (Speaker)

1 Apr 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Psychomorphometrics: A novel approach for the prediction of facial morphology patterns by biological processes and perception.

Schäfer, K. (Invited speaker)

26 Mar 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Academic careers in mainland Europe. GB Workshop Life After EVAN

Schäfer, K. (Invited speaker)

13 Jan 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Sources of academic funding in Europe.

Schäfer, K. (Invited speaker)

13 Jan 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Gorillas in the Mist.

Schäfer, K. (Speaker)

25 Nov 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Psychomorphospace - from biology to perception, and back: Towards an integrated quantification of facial form and function.

Schäfer, K. (Speaker)

11 Sept 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Generalizing morphological correlates of maturity: Visualization and perception.

Schäfer, K. (Contributor)

28 Aug 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Psychomorphometry: towards a novel assessment of human facial form and function

Schäfer, K. (Speaker)

28 Aug 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Car fronts as (human) faces: Overperception errors as evolutionary stable strategy?

Schäfer, K. (Contributor)

13 Jul 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


From biology to perception by way of the face: the role of geometric morphometrics in interdisciplinary ethological studies.

Schäfer, K. (Speaker), Fink, B. (Contributor), Theiler, K. (Contributor), Windhager, S. (Contributor) & Bookstein, F. (Contributor)

13 Jul 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Developmental instability: Asymmetry and its components.

Schäfer, K. (Invited speaker)

9 Jul 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Asymmetry and its components: Consequences.

Schäfer, K. (Speaker)

6 Jul 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Biology and psychology of the human face.

Schäfer, K. (Invited speaker)

9 Apr 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Morphological plasticity of the human face. : Discussion Meeting on Phenotypic and Developmental Plasticity.

Schäfer, K. (Invited speaker)

16 Dec 2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Vortrag auf Kongress: Discussion Meeting on Phenotypic and Developmental Plasticity.

Schäfer, K. (Invited speaker)

16 Dec 2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Is dreaming a biological epiphenomenon? : Discussant to Allan Hobson: What can Brain science tell us about consciousness?

Schäfer, K. (Invited speaker)

5 Oct 2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Was wissen wir von den ersten Menschen?

Schäfer, K. (Speaker)

27 Aug 2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


“Maleness” reconsidered: hominoid craniofacial sexual dimorphism

Schäfer, K. (Speaker), Mitteroecker, P. (Contributor), Gunz, P. (Contributor), Bernhard, M. (Contributor) & Bookstein, F. (Contributor)

27 Mar 20071 Apr 2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Contributions to the yearly meeting of EVAN.

Schäfer, K. (Speaker)

7 Jan 2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Vienna Morphofest 2006

Schäfer, K. (Speaker)

11 Jul 2006

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Can Khoi San cranial morphology be explained by paedomorphism?

Schäfer, K. (Speaker), Gunz, P. (Contributor), Fenes, C. (Contributor), Mitteroecker, P. (Contributor) & Bookstein, F. (Contributor)

8 Mar 200611 Mar 2006

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Einsichten und Ausblicke: Die menschliche Gesichtsform aus dem Blickwinkel der Evolutionären Anthropologie

Schäfer, K. (Keynote speaker)

8 Jan 2006

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Studies in the biology and psychology of human facial form

Schäfer, K. (Speaker) & Seidler, H. (Contributor)

Jun 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The "phrenology" of testosterone: studies in the endocrinology and psychology of facial form.

Schäfer, K. (Speaker), Fink, B. (Contributor), Grammer, K. (Contributor), Mitteroecker, P. (Contributor), Gunz, P. (Contributor), Neave, N. (Contributor), Bookstein, F. (Contributor), Seidler, H. (Contributor) & Manning, J. T. (Contributor)

6 Apr 20059 Apr 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Second to fourth digit ratio and face shape

Fink, B. (Speaker), Schäfer, K. (Contributor), Grammer, K. (Contributor), Mitteroecker, P. (Contributor), Gunz, P. (Contributor), Neave, N. (Contributor), Bookstein, F. (Contributor), Seidler, H. (Contributor) & Manning, J. T. (Contributor)

30 Mar 20052 Apr 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Sexualdimorphismus bei Homo sapiens: Ursachen und Konsequenzen

Schäfer, K. (Invited speaker)

13 Jan 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Shape analysis of hominid diversity – Insights and challenges

Schäfer, K. (Speaker)

28 Apr 2004

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


(Non)allometric craniofacial sexual dimorphism in hominoids

Schäfer, K. (Speaker), Mitteroecker, P. (Contributor), Gunz, P. (Contributor), Bernhard, M. (Contributor), Seidler, H. (Contributor) & Bookstein, F. (Contributor)

2004

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Shape Analysis of Hominid Variation

Schäfer, K. (Invited speaker)

2004

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Woher kommt der Mensch?

Schäfer, K. (Speaker)

2004

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Cranial sexual dimorphism, allometry and mating system among hominoids

Schäfer, K. (Speaker), Mitteroecker, P. (Contributor), Gunz, P. (Contributor), Bernhard, M. (Contributor) & Seidler, H. (Contributor)

17 Sept 2003

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Female attractiveness—Physical appearance as shape

Schäfer, K. (Speaker), Mitteroecker, P. (Contributor), Gunz, P. (Contributor), Bookstein, F. (Contributor) & Grammer, K. (Contributor)

23 Apr 2003

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A more detailed look at fluctuating asymmetry in anthropology

Schäfer, K. (Speaker), Mitteroecker, P. (Contributor), Lauc, T. (Contributor) & Grammer, K. (Contributor)

2002

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Does dental arch asymmetry in adriatic island populations reflect developmental instability?

Schäfer, K. (Speaker), Lauc, T. (Contributor), Mitteroecker, P. (Contributor) & Gunz, P. (Contributor)

2002

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Frontal cranial profiles of archaic and modern subadult and adult humans

Schäfer, K. (Speaker), Seidler, H. (Contributor), Gunz, P. (Contributor), Mitteroecker, P. (Contributor), Prossinger, H. (Contributor) & Weber, G. (Contributor)

2002

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Shape and size of the frontal bone in modern and archaic humans

Schäfer, K. (Speaker) & Seidler, H. (Contributor)

2002

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Exo- and endocranial morphometrics and the implications for mid-Pleistocene crania descriptions

Schäfer, K. (Speaker), Seidler, H. (Contributor), Prossinger, H. (Contributor) & Weber, G. (Contributor)

2000

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Morphological aspects of the cranial vault in Homo: A CT-based analysis.

Schäfer, K. (Speaker)

1999

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Morphometric approaches to the shape of the frontal bone vault

Schäfer, K. (Speaker), Seidler, H. (Contributor), Scholze, T. (Contributor), Prossinger, H. (Contributor) & Fieder, M. (Contributor)

1999

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Position and Morphology of the Forebrain in genus Homo: Implications due to differently chosen planar Sections

Schäfer, K. (Speaker), Seidler, H. (Contributor), Scholze, T. (Contributor), Fieder, M. (Contributor), Prossinger, H. (Contributor), Weber, G. (Contributor) & Recheis, W. (Contributor)

1999

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Re-evaluation of the endocranial volume of Guattari 1

Schäfer, K. (Speaker), Recheis, W. (Contributor), Macchiarelli, R. (Contributor), Seidler, H. (Contributor), Weaver, D. (Contributor), Bondioli, L. (Contributor), Weber, G. (Contributor) & Zur Nedden, D. (Contributor)

1999

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Behavioural responses to urban environments relating to their habitat quality indicating features

Schäfer, K. (Speaker) & Atzwanger, K. (Contributor)

1998

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


State of Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology

Schäfer, K. (Speaker), Seidler, H. (Contributor), Fieder, M. (Contributor) & Prossinger, H. (Contributor)

1998

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Social cohesion and physical incivilities in urban habitats

Schäfer, K. (Speaker) & Atzwanger, K. (Contributor)

1997

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Xenophobie—aus soziobiologischer Sicht

Schäfer, K. (Speaker)

1997

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Phylogenetic constraints on behavior in public places

Schäfer, K. (Speaker) & Atzwanger, K. (Contributor)

1996

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Die Lebendigkeit von Plätzen

Schäfer, K. (Speaker) & Grammer, K. (Contributor)

1994

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Kommunikation und Wohlbefinden in Wohnanlagen.

Schäfer, K. (Speaker) & Grammer, K. (Contributor)

1994

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Urban living and human behavior

Schäfer, K. (Speaker) & Grammer, K. (Contributor)

1994

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Department of Evolutionary Anthropology

Djerassiplatz 1 (UBB)
1030 Wien
Room: 5.001

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katrin.schaefer@univie.ac.at