ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2022
More than just a pretty face? The relationship between immune function and perceived facial attractiveness.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Attraction in every sense: How looks, voice, movement and scent draw us to future lovers and friends.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2025Article
- Facial Appearance and Markers of Cardiometabolic Risk in Healthy Adult Men.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- A Study on the Aesthetic Parameters and Proportions of the External Contour for Minimally Invasive Facial Injection.Aesthetic plastic surgery · 2024Article
- The Effects of Live Streamer's Facial Attractiveness and Product Type on Consumer Purchase Intention: An Exploratory Study with Eye Tracking Technology.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Do lifestyle and hormonal variables explain links between health and facial attractiveness?Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Facial attractiveness in the eyes of men with high arousal.Brain and behavior · 2023Article
- Individual attractiveness preferences differentially modulate immediate and voluntary attention.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Self-perceived Mate Value is Predicted by Biological and self-reported Indices of Health in Young Adults.Adaptive human behavior and physiology · 2023Article
- Evidence against the "anomalous-is-bad" stereotype in Hadza hunter gatherers.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Darwin Versus Wallace: Esthetic Evolution and Preferential Mate Choice.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Autoimmune Hashimoto's Disease and Feminization Level-TestingEvolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
- To Enhance, or not to Enhance: The Situational Context Shapes Women's Intentions on Amount and Diligence of Makeup Application.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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Abstract
It has long been hypothesized that attractiveness provides a cue to a target's health and immunocompetence. However, much of the research testing this hypothesis has relied on a small number of indirect proxies of immune function, and the results of this research have been mixed. Here, we build on this past research, examining the relationship between target attractiveness and (i) self-reported health, (ii)
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