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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020

Shifts in Female Facial Attractiveness during Pregnancy.

Dariusz P Danel, Kasper Kalinowski, Natalia Nowak-Szczepanska, Anna Ziomkiewicz-Wichary, Anna Apanasewicz, Krzysztof Borysławski, Sławomir Kozieł, Danuta Kornafel, Pawel Fedurek

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Dariusz P DanelDepartment of Anthropology, Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, 53-114 Wrocław, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-6175-3928
Kasper KalinowskiIndependent researcher, 10-346 Olsztyn, Poland.
Natalia Nowak-SzczepanskaDepartment of Anthropology, Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, 53-114 Wrocław, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-2774-992X
Anna Ziomkiewicz-WicharyDepartment of Anthropology, Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, 53-114 Wrocław, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-1842-3314
Anna ApanasewiczDepartment of Anthropology, Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, 53-114 Wrocław, Poland.
Krzysztof BorysławskiDepartment of Anthropology, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, 51-631 Wroclaw, Poland.
Sławomir KoziełDepartment of Anthropology, Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, 53-114 Wrocław, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-0584-4427
Danuta KornafelDepartment of Human Biology, University of Wroclaw, 50-138 Wroclaw, Poland.
Pawel FedurekDivision of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA Stirling, UK.

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Abstract

It has been proposed that women's physical attractiveness is a cue to temporal changes in fertility. If this is the case, we should observe shifts in attractiveness during pregnancy-a unique physiological state of temporal infertility. The aim of this study was to examine how women's facial attractiveness changes during the subsequent trimesters of pregnancy and how it compares to that of nonpregnant women. Sixty-six pictures of pregnant women (22 pictures per trimester) and 22 of nonpregnant women (a control group) were used to generate four composite portraits, which were subsequently assessed for facial attractiveness by 117 heterosexual men. The results show considerable differences between facial attractiveness ratings depending on the status and progress of pregnancy. Nonpregnant women were perceived as the most attractive, and the attractiveness scores of pregnant women decreased throughout the course of pregnancy. Our findings show that facial attractiveness can be influenced by pregnancy and that gestation, even at its early stages, affects facial attractiveness. Considerable changes in women's physiology that occur during pregnancy may be responsible for the observed effects.

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BeautyFacePregnancyFemaleFertilityHeterosexualityHumansMalePerceptioncues of fertilityfacial attractivenesspregnancywomen

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PMCPMC7400433

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