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Measuring the physical in physical attractiveness: quasi-experiments on the sociobiology of female facial beauty
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In this paper, the relation between specific adult female facial features and the attraction, attribution, and altruistic responses of adult males was investigated, and the relative size of 24 facial features in an international sample of photographs of 50 females was obtained.Abstract:
Two quasi-experiments investigated the relation between specific adult female facial features and the attraction, attribution, and altruistic responses of adult males. Precise measurements were obtained of the relative size of 24 facial features in an international sample of photographs of 50 females. Male subjects provided ratings of the attractiveness of each of the females. Positively correlated with attractiveness ratings were the neonate features of large eyes, small nose, and small chin; the maturity features of prominent cheekbones and narrow cheeks; and the expressive features of high eyebrows, large pupils, and large smile. A second study asked males to rate the personal characteristics of 16 previously measured females. The males were also asked to indicate the females for whom they would be most inclined to perform altruistic behaviors, and select for dating, sexual behavior, and childrearing. The second study replicated the correlations of feature measurements with attractiveness. Facial features also predicted personality attributions, altruistic inclinations, and reproductive interest. Sociobiological interpretations are discussed.read more
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Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that females value cues to resource acquisition in potential mates more highly than males, while males valued earning capacity, ambition, industriousness, youth, physical attractiveness, and chastity.
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Maxims or myths of beauty? A meta-analytic and theoretical review.
Judith H. Langlois,Lisa Kalakanis,Adam J. Rubenstein,Andrea Larson,Monica Hallam,Monica Smoot +5 more
TL;DR: Eleven meta-analyses evaluate social and fitness-related evolutionary theories and the veracity of maxims about beauty to demonstrate that raters agree about who is and is not attractive, both within and across cultures.
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What is beautiful is good, but…: A meta-analytic review of research on the physical attractiveness stereotype.
TL;DR: The authors showed that the physical attractiveness stereotype established by studies of person perception is not as strong or general as suggested by the often-used summary phrase what is beautiful is good, and that the average magnitude of this beauty-is-good effect was moderate, and the strength of the effect varied considerably from study to study Consistent with their implicit personality theory framework, a substantial portion of this variation was explained by the specific content of the inferences that subjects were asked to make.
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The evolutionary psychology of facial beauty.
TL;DR: It is argued that both kinds of selection pressures may have shaped the authors' perceptions of facial beauty.
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The origins of sex differences in human behavior: Evolved dispositions versus social roles
Alice H. Eagly,Wendy Wood +1 more
TL;DR: The present article contrasts these 2 origin theories of sex differences and illustrates the explanatory power of each to account for the overall differences between the mate selection preferences of men and women.
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What is beautiful is what is good
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