ArticleArchives of sexual behavior2018
A Comparison of Masculinity Facial Preference Among Naturally Cycling, Pregnant, Lactating, and Post-Menopausal Women.
Article in Archives of sexual behavior, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
- A meta-analysis of the association between male dimorphism and fitness outcomes in humans.eLife · 2022Pooled it
- Preliminary evidence of an increased susceptibility to face pareidolia in postpartum women.Biology letters · 2023Article
- Women's Mating Strategies and Mate Value Are Associated with Viewing Time to Facial Masculinity.Archives of sexual behavior · 2023Article
- No evidence that sociosexual orientation moderates effects of conception probability on women's preferences for male facial masculinity.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Effects of Male Facial Masculinity on Perceived Attractiveness.Adaptive human behavior and physiology · 2021Article
- Women's preferences for men's facial masculinity are strongest under favorable ecological conditions.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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- Current Fertility Status Does Not Predict Sociosexual Attitudes and Desires in Normally Ovulating Women.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
- No Evidence That Women's Sociosexuality or Self-Perceived Mate Value Predict Their Preferences for Men's Face-Shape Masculinity.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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Abstract
Women show cyclical shifts in preferences for physical male traits. Here we investigated how fertility status influences women's facial masculinity preference in men by analyzing a large sample of heterosexual women (N = 3720). Women were regularly either cycling (in both low- and high-conception probability groups), lactating or were currently in a non-fertile state (pregnant or post-menopausal). Analyses simultaneously controlled for women's age and sexual openness. Participants via two alternative forced choice questions judged attractiveness of masculinized and feminized men's faces. After controlling for the effect of age and sociosexuality, regularly cycling and pregnant women showed a stronger preference for masculinity than lactating and post-menopausal women. However, there was no significant difference in masculinity preference between women in the low- and high-conception probability groups. Women's sociosexuality showed a positive, but very weak association with men's facial masculinity preference. We suggest that women's overall, long-term hormonal state (cycling, post-menopausal) is a stronger predictor of preference for sexual dimorphism than changes in hormonal levels through the cycle.
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