Publications:
Allen, C., Havlíček, J., & Roberts, S. C. (2019). The Effects of Artificial Fragrances on Human Olfactory Communication. In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 14 (pp. 107-117). Springer, Cham.
Allen C, Cobey K.D., Havlicek J, Singleton F.P., Hahn A.C., Moran C.N., Roberts S.C. (2019) Preparation for fatherhood: A role for olfactory communication during human pregnancy?. Physiology and Behavior, 206, 175-180.
Allen C., & Nettle D. (2019) Hunger and socioeconomic background additively predict impulsivity in humans.Current Psychology, Epub ahead of print.
Allen, C. (2017). A Highland fling to remember: A short report on the XXIII biennial congress on Human Ethology in Stirling, Scotland. Human Ethology Bulletin, 32(1), pages 1-5.
Allen, C., Cobey, K. D., Havlíček, J., & Roberts, S. C. (2016). The impact of artificial fragrances on the assessment of mate quality cues in body odor. Evolution and Human Behavior, 37(6), 481–489.
I have peer reviewed manuscripts for journals including:
Evolution and Human Behavior
Chemosensory Perception
Psychoneuroendocrinology
Appetite
Chemosensory Perception
I am an Associate Editor for Human Ethology.
Selected conferences, invited talks, and awards:
August 2017 - Wellcome Institutional Strategic Support Fund (Broadening our Horizons scheme, £775) to give oral presentation titled: ‘Investigating the artificially scented ape: the impact of artificial fragrances on human olfactory communication’. Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, Cardiff.
May 2017 - CBE seminar titled: ‘Hunger, cognition and early life adversity’, Newcastle University.
Apr 2017 - Invited seminar at the National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic, titled: ‘Hunger, cognition and early life adversity’.
Invited seminar at the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, titled: ‘I wanna make you sweat: a comparison of methods for odour collection’
Nov 2016 - CBE seminar titled: ‘The artificially scented ape: Investigating the role of fragrance and body odour in human interactions’, Newcastle University.
Apr 2016 - European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association, London. Accepted poster presentation titled:'Perfumers' perceptions of body odours: towards a new scale for odour description.
Mar 2016 - Invited by Dr Christopher Watkins to give a departmental seminar at the University of Abertay, Dundee, titled: ‘The artificially scented ape: Investigating the role of fragrances and body odours in human interactions’.
Nov 2015 - Behaviour and Evolution Research group meeting at the University of Stirling titled: ‘Perfumers' perceptions of body odours: a new scale for odour description’.
July 2015 - Invited to attend the UK Semiochemistry Network, Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, British Workshop XXII, and present a talk titled: ‘Effect of fragrance use on discrimination of individual body odour’.
May 2015 - Plenary speaker at the British Society of Perfumers annual symposium (Fragrance choice and individual differences). Northampton, UK.
May 2015 - ISHE summer institute, Athens, Greece. Won the Institute poster competition with a poster titled: ‘Effect of fragrance use on discrimination of individual body odour’.
Apr 2014 - European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association (EHBEA) conference in Bristol, UK. Attendance was supported by an EHBEA student bursary (EUR 100).
Apr 2012 - Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society in Hull, UK. Presented a poster entitled: ‘Should doctors run to crash calls? The effects of exercise on cognition’