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Mag. Dr. Sonja Windhager
Sonja Windhager

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Swami, V., Tran, U. S., Voracek, M., Aavik, T., Ranjbar, H. A., Adebayo, S. O., Afhami, R., Ahmed, O., Aimé, A., Akel, M., Al Halbusi, H., Alexias, G., Ali, K. F., Alp-Dal, N., Alsalhani, A. B., Álvarez-Solas, S., Amaral, A. C. S., Andrianto, S., Aspden, T., ... Stieger, S. (2025). Self-Compassion Around the World: Measurement Invariance of the Short Form of the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS-SF) Across 65 Nations, 40 Languages, Gender Identities, and Age Groups. Mindfulness, 16(6), 1569-1596. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-025-02560-5


Swami, V., Stieger, S., Voracek, M., Aavik, T., Ranjbar, H. A., Adebayo, S. O., Afhami, R., Ahmed, O., Aimé, A., Akel, M., Halbusi, H. A., Alexias, G., Ali, K. F., Alp-Dal, N., Alsalhani, A. B., Álvarez-Solas, S., Amaral, A. C. S., Andrianto, S., Aspden, T., ... Tran, U. S. (2025). Life satisfaction around the world: Measurement invariance of the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups. PLoS ONE, 20(1 January), Article e0313107. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313107

Aydık, F., Ertuğrul, B., Windhager, S., & Özener, B. (2024). Associations of facial shape with physical strength and 2D:4D in a Turkish male and female sample. American Journal of Human Biology, 36(11), Article e24155. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.24155

Swami, V., White, M. P., Voracek, M., Tran, U. S., Aavik, T., Ranjbar, H. A., Adebayo, S. O., Afhami, R., Ahmed, O., Aimé, A., Akel, M., Al Halbusi, H., Alexias, G., Ali, K. F., Alp-Dal, N., Alsalhani, A. B., Álvarez-Solas, S., Soares Amaral, A. C., Andrianto, S., ... Stieger, S. (2024). Exposure and connectedness to natural environments: An examination of the measurement invariance of the Nature Exposure Scale (NES) and Connectedness to Nature Scale (CNS) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 99, Article 102432. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102432





Schäfer, K., Butovskaya, M. L., Mabulla, A. Z. P., Fink, B., & Windhager, S. (2024). Male facial cues to high stature among Europeans and Maasai augment perceptions of aggressiveness. In HBES 2024 – The 35th Annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference https://www.hbes.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/HBES-2024-conference-booklet_v5.pdf


Swami, V., Tran, U. S., Stieger, S., Aavik, T., Ranjbar, H. A., Adebayo, S. O., Afhami, R., Ahmed, O., Aimé, A., Akel, M., Halbusi, H. A., Alexias, G., Ali, K. F., Alp-Dal, N., Alsalhani, A. B., Álvares-Solas, S., Amaral, A. C. S., Andrianto, S., Aspden, T., ... Voracek, M. (2023). Body appreciation around the world: Measurement invariance of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age. Body Image, 46, 449-466. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2023.07.010




Windhager, S., Graduates of the Bachelorseminar for students of the teacher program Biology Consortium, & Schäfer, K. (2022). Beautiful is good? Geometric morphometrics depicts children’s facial appearance in relation to expected grades by prospective and current teachers. In Book of Abstracts – PTNCE Conference GDANSK 2022

Windhager, S., Kirchengast, S., Graduates of the Project Practicum Behavioral Biology and Human Life History Consortium, & Schäfer, K. (2022). COVID-19 and mask-wearing: Direct behavioral observations confirm evolutionary predictions. In EHBEA 2022 – European Human Behavior & Evolution Association

Windhager, S., Sarfo, J. O., Ansah, E. W., Consortium of Human Behavior Working Group Graduates, & Schäfer, K. (2022). Gender differences in Covid-19 fears: Austrian evidence. In Human Behavior & Evolution Society: 33rd Annual Meeting


Rostovtseva, V. V., Mezentseva, A. A., Windhager, S., & Butovskaya, M. L. (2021). Sexual dimorphism in facial shape of modern Buryats of Southern Siberia. American Journal of Human Biology, 33(2), Article e23458. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23458

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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


Gesichter sichten: Komponenten des ersten Eindrucks im menschlichen Verhalten

Windhager, S. (Speaker)

27 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


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



Der erste Eindruck: Was in menschlichen Gesichtern steckt

Windhager, S. (Speaker)

1 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Evolutionary tricks in perception of leader’s appearance

Rostovtseva, V. (Speaker), Mezentseva, A. A. (Contributor), Windhager, S. (Contributor) & Butovskaya, M. L. (Contributor)

5 Jul 20219 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Face of a Leader: combining behavioral experiments with geometric morphometrics

Rostovtseva, V. (Speaker), Mezentseva, A. A. (Contributor), Windhager, S. (Contributor) & Butovskaya, M. L. (Contributor)

24 Jun 20212 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Facial shape changes with age: What geometric morphometrics can tell us

Windhager, S. (Invited speaker)

9 Jun 2021

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


Female aging has its turns: facial shape and its perception in humans 

Windhager, S. (Invited speaker)

16 Sept 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Cooperative Face: experimental study on facial morphology and pro-sociality in Buryats

Mezentseva, A. (Speaker), Windhager, S. (Contributor), Rostovtseva, V. (Contributor) & Butovskaya, M. (Contributor)

23 Aug 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Human facial aging trajectories: menopause alters and speeds up changes in female appearance

Windhager, S. (Speaker)

28 Mar 2019

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


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


Children’s prosocial sharing in a resource allocation paradigm constrained by physical properties, not by conventional rules

Horn, L. (Speaker), Markova, G. (Contributor), Windhager, S. (Contributor) & Massen, J. J. M. (Contributor)

13 Sept 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Windhager, S. (Contributor)

29 Aug 20161 Sept 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Genetic effects on facial fluctuating asymmetry: insights from single nucleotide polymorphisms

Windhager, S. (Speaker)

24 Aug 201628 Aug 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


A new face for Biological Anthropology: integrating eco-phenotypic variation and perception

Windhager, S. (Invited speaker)

28 Jun 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


A comparative approach to social behavior in children

Hungerländer, N. A. (Speaker), Horn, L. (Speaker), Bugnyar, T. (Contributor), Windhager, S. (Contributor) & Massen, J. J. M. (Contributor)

2016 → …

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Snap judgments from male and female faces: insights from geometric morphometrics

Windhager, S. (Invited speaker)

15 Sept 201518 Sept 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Human biophilia—a glimpse into the past?

Windhager, S. (Speaker)

7 Sept 201511 Sept 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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


Of cars and faces: assessing facial shape cues using geometric morphometrics

Windhager, S. (Invited speaker)

21 Nov 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Facial masculinity concepts reconsidered: a tribute to biology.

Windhager, S. (Speaker)

5 Aug 20149 Aug 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Windhager, S. (Speaker)

30 Jul 20142 Aug 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Powerful methods for dominant faces: relating facial shape to physical measures and social perception using geometric morphometrics

Windhager, S. (Invited speaker)

14 Apr 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


Increasing facial evidence: geometric morphometric approaches for relating facial shape to physical and perceptual measures.

Windhager, S. (Invited speaker)

24 Feb 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

Windhager, S. (Invited speaker)

15 Nov 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Windhager, S. (Speaker)

13 Aug 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Digit ratio and facial shape: companions for life?

Windhager, S. (Contributor)

13 Jun 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Facial dominance: quantifying biological and social shape cues

Windhager, S. (Invited speaker)

31 May 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Facial features in cars: an application of geometric morphometrics

Windhager, S. (Invited speaker)

25 May 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Windhager, S. (Speaker)

16 Jun 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Windhager, S. (Speaker)

1 Apr 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Generalizing morphological correlates of maturity: Visualization and perception.

Windhager, S. (Speaker)

28 Aug 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Windhager, S. (Speaker)

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


Department of Evolutionary Anthropology

Djerassiplatz 1 (UBB)
1030 Wien
Room: 5.120

T: +43-1-4277-54748

sonja.windhager@univie.ac.at