The influence of women's mating strategies on preference for masculine facial architecture

Waynforth, David; Delwadia, Sonia; Camm, Miriam

doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2005.03.003

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“…Our initial significant correlation between SOI and masculinity preferences concorded with the results of Waynforth et al (2005) and demonstrated the link in a heterogeneous sample of both students and non-students, including those of low socioeconomic status who may be less likely to engage in online university research (see, e.g., Ross, Mansson, Daneback, Cooper, & Tikkanen, 2005). Moreover, the fact that the behavioral components of SOI may be confounded with opportunity does not appear to preclude significant results and, indeed, attitude SOI failed to produce significant results in our sample.…”

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confidence: 67%

“…When explicitly asked to choose a short-term partner, women select a more masculine face than when choosing a longterm partner (e.g., Burt et al, 2007;Little, Jones, Penton-Voak, Burt, & Perrett, 2003;Penton-Voak et al, 1999;Scott, Swami, Josephson, & Penton-Voak, 2008) and there is some evidence that women with a less restricted sociosexual orientation also prefer more masculine faces Waynforth, Delwadia, & Camm, 2005). Furthermore, variables associated with interest in short-or long-term relationships, including relationship status (Sacco, Jones, DeBruine, & Hugenberg, 2012), hormonal contraceptive use , and age at menarche (Jones, Boothroyd, Feinberg, & DeBruine, 2010), each relate to face preference.…”

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Self-Reported Impulsivity, Rather than Sociosexuality, Predicts Women’s Preferences for Masculine Features in Male Faces

Boothroyd

Brewer

2013

Arch Sex Behav

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(2014) 'Self-reported impulsivity, rather than sociosexuality, predicts women's preferences for masculine features in male faces.', Archives of sexual behavior., 43 (5). pp. 983-988. Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-013-0204-z Publisher's copyright statement:The nal publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-013-0204-z.Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Acknowledgement:The authors thank Rachel Stokes for assistance with data collection. 2 ABSTRACTPrevious research has suggested that an individual's sociosexual orientation (i.e., their willingness to engage in sexual behavior outside of long-term relationships) may influence the qualities they find attractive in a potential mate. Results, however, have not been consistent and, moreover, studies have tended to draw from specific social groups. Here, we tested the relationship between sociosexuality and female's preferences for masculinity in male faces, using a diverse population. We furthermore investigated impulsivity alongside sociosexuality, as this trait has been suggested as a "root" cause of variation in sexual behavior (Cross, 2010) and thus may better explain variation in mate choice. Results showed a significant association between increases in both sociosexuality and two subcomponents of impulsivity and greater preferences for masculine male features. Regression analysis suggested that a subcomponent of impulsivity, namely lack of planning, was the primary determinant of preferences. We discuss the implications these results have for our understanding of female attraction to masculine features.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Self-Reported Impulsivity, Rather than Sociosexuality, Predicts Women’s Preferences for Masculine Features in Male Faces

Boothroyd

Brewer

2013

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“…Therefore, females from each group assess faces more unvaryingly in the context they are more interested in and more unvaryingly assess those facial features that are important in that context. This is in concord with other researchers' findings that high-SO women prefer masculine male faces more strongly than low-SO women (WAYNFORTH, DELWADIA and CAMM 2005), and that such faces are more preferred in the context of short-term than long-term relationships (LITTLE et al 2002). The present results also fit well with the psychoevolutionary view of facial attractiveness perception.…”

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Do they know what they like? Intra-individual variation of female facial preferences

Kościński

2010

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology

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Abstract. Although patterns of facial preferences have been examined in many studies, the intraindividual variation in assessments of facial attractiveness has been addressed far less frequently. Here we investigated the stability of women's evaluations of real and digitally manipulated male faces at monthly and yearly intervals, and we sought determinants of the stability. The following results were obtained: (1) The stability of attractiveness assessments over a year was not lower than over a month. This suggests that between-session disparity is predominantly from factors fluctuating over time with no directional trends. (2) The breakdown of a relationship resulted in an increase in the preference for friendly looking faces. (3) The change of mood positively correlated with the change of preference for good-genes facial cues, but only in paired women. This suggests the influence of mood changes on women's readiness to cheat their long-term partner in order to "gain" good genes. (4) Women that were relatively open to casual sex manifested relatively high stability of preferences for sexy looking faces. (5) The mean between-session selfcorrelation of attractiveness assessments amounted to 0.78 (R 2 = 61%), which is unexpectedly low given generally very efficient face processing in humans.

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“…More specifically, as our results indicate, men are expected to focus on the facial traits of their mother that are primarily related to the females' high mate value: lip fullness, jaw size and facial shape (Jones 1995;Cunningham et al 2002;Thornhill & Gangestad 2006). We have also found a significant relationship between women's father and the women's partner in the lower area of the face characterized by facial proportions, such as distance between eyes, nose size and jaw size, which are associated with salient male features on the masculine-feminine scale (Little et al 2002a;Penton-Voak et al 2004;Waynforth et al 2005). We speculate that people who mentally represent certain features of their opposite-sex parent's face tend to seek a partner whose face may express both similarity and attractiveness.…”

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Facialmetric similarities mediate mate choice: sexual imprinting on opposite-sex parents

2008

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Former studies have suggested that imprinting-like processes influence the shaping of human mate preferences. In this study, we provide more direct evidence for assessing facial resemblance between subjects' partner and subjects' parents. Fourteen facial proportions were measured on 312 adults belonging to 52 families, and the correlations between family members were compared with those of pairs randomly selected from the population. Spouses proved to be assortatively mated in the majority of measured facial proportions. Significant correlations have been found between the young men and their partner's father (but not his mother), especially on facial proportions belonging to the central area of the face. Women also showed resemblance to their partner's mother (but not to their father) in the facial characteristics of their lower face. Replicating our previous studies, facial photographs of participants were also matched by independent judges who ascribed higher resemblance between partners, and subjects and their partners' opposite-sex parents, compared with controls. Our results support the sexual imprinting hypothesis which states that children shape a mental template of their opposite-sex parents and search for a partner who resembles that perceptual schema. The fact that only the facial metrics of opposite-sex parents showed resemblance to the partner's face tends to rule out the role of familiarity in shaping mating preferences. Our findings also reject several other rival hypotheses. The adaptive value of imprintingrelated human mating is discussed, and a hypothesis is made of why different facial areas are involved in males' and females' search for resemblance.

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The influence of women's mating strategies on preference for masculine facial architecture

Cited by 106 publications

References 31 publications

Self-Reported Impulsivity, Rather than Sociosexuality, Predicts Women’s Preferences for Masculine Features in Male Faces

Self-Reported Impulsivity, Rather than Sociosexuality, Predicts Women’s Preferences for Masculine Features in Male Faces

Do they know what they like? Intra-individual variation of female facial preferences

Facialmetric similarities mediate mate choice: sexual imprinting on opposite-sex parents

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