Michael Cunningham is a Professor of Social and Personality Psychology in the Department of Communication of the University of Louisville. He investigates social and evolutionary processes in romantic attraction and repulsion.

Cunningham, M. R., Roberts, A. R., Barbee, A. P., Druen, P. B., & Wu, C. H. (1995). ” Their ideas of beauty are, on the whole, the same as ours”: Consistency and variability in the cross-cultural perception of female physical attractiveness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68(2), 261-279.