David Ian Perrett (born 11 April 1954[1]) is a professor of psychology at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he leads the Perception Lab.
[3] He has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles,[4] many of which appearing in leading scientific journals such as the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B—Biological Sciences,[5] Psychological Science,[6] and Nature.
[7] Perrett received the British Psychological Society President's Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge in 2000,[8] the Golden Brain Award of Minerva Foundation in 2002,[9] the Experimental Psychology Society Mid-Career prize (2008),[10] and a British Academy Wolfson Research Professorship (2009–2012).
[11] Perrett received a BSc in psychology from the University of St Andrews in 1976.
[12] Perrett received a DPhil in psychology from Oxford University in 1981,[12] under Edmund Rolls.