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Women's preferences for masculinity in male faces are predicted by pathogen disgust, but not by moral or sexual disgust
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This article found that disgust sensitivity in the pathogen domain is positively correlated with facial masculinity preferences, but disgust sensitivity on the moral and sexual domains is not, which may reflect factors that influence how women resolve the tradeoff between the benefits and costs associated with choosing a masculine partner.About:
This article is published in Evolution and Human Behavior.The article was published on 2010-01-01. It has received 112 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Disgust & Masculinity.read more
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Beauty and the beast: mechanisms of sexual selection in humans
TL;DR: The twodimensionality of the human mating environment, along with phylogeny, the spatial and temporal clustering of mates and competitors, and anatomical considerations, predict that contest competition should have been the primary mechanism of sexual selection in men and a functional analysis supports this prediction.
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Disgust: Evolved Function and Structure
TL;DR: It is suggested that in addition to motivating pathogen avoidance, disgust evolved to regulate decisions in the domains of mate choice and morality and is recast into a framework that can generate new lines of empirical and theoretical inquiry.
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The health of a nation predicts their mate preferences: cross-cultural variation in women's preferences for masculinized male faces
Lisa M. DeBruine,Benedict C. Jones,John Robertson Crawford,Lisa L. M. Welling,Anthony C. Little +4 more
TL;DR: This work investigates the relationship between women's preferences for male facial masculinity and a health index derived from World Health Organization statistics for mortality rates, life expectancies and the impact of communicable disease and shows non-arbitrary cross-cultural differences in facial attractiveness judgements.
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Physical Attractiveness: An Adaptationist Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors integrate life history, evolutionary psychology, and human biology approaches to address the question of how and why our minds generate different levels of attraction to others, and identify different domains of social value for which attractiveness assessment evolved, and review evidence for some of the hypothesized attractiveness-assessment adaptations in those domains.
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The Behavioral Immune System: Implications for Social Cognition, Social Interaction, and Social Influence
Damian R. Murray,Mark Schaller +1 more
TL;DR: The behavioral immune system as discussed by the authors is a motivational system that evolved as a means of inhibiting contact with disease-causing parasites and that, in contemporary human societies, influences social cognition and social behavior.
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The evolution of human mating: Trade-offs and strategic pluralism
TL;DR: During human evolutionary history, there were “trade-offs” between expending time and energy on child-rearing and mating, so both men and women evolved conditional mating strategies guided by cues signaling the circumstances.
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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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Effects of sexual dimorphism on facial attractiveness
David I. Perrett,Kieran J Lee,Kieran J Lee,Ian S. Penton-Voak,Duncan Rowland,Sakiko Yoshikawa,D. M. Burt,S. P. Henzi,D. L. Castles,Shigeru Akamatsu +9 more
TL;DR: The results of asking subjects to choose the most attractive faces from continua that enhanced or diminished differences between the average shape of female and male faces indicate a selection pressure that limits sexual dimorphism and encourages neoteny in humans.
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A lifespan database of adult facial stimuli.
Meredith Minear,Denise C. Park +1 more
TL;DR: A database of 575 individual faces ranging from ages 18 to 93 is described, developed to be more representative of age groups across the lifespan, with a special emphasis on recruiting older adults.
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Microbes, mating, and morality: individual differences in three functional domains of disgust.
TL;DR: This work investigates a 3-domain model of disgust and introduces a new measure of disgust sensitivity, which shows predictable differentiation based on sex, perceived vulnerability to disease, psychopathic tendencies, and Big 5 personality traits.