Beards augment perceptions of men's age, social status, and aggressiveness, but not attractiveness

By Barnaby J. W. Dixson, Paul L. Vasey. 2012

139 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Museology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/41c0808eb1a5844c1e2f65eaf1774920300501fb

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. R. Brooks
2. D. Puts
3. Barnaby J. W. Dixson

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. R. Brooks
2. D. Puts
3. Barnaby J. W. Dixson
4. David Feinberg
5. Lisa L. M. Welling
6. Khytam Dawood
7. B. Jones

In Museology

1. R. Brooks
2. D. Puts
3. Barnaby J. W. Dixson

Citations in the corpus

• Human sexual selection (2016, background): “Evidence has begun to accumulate that across cultures, men’s secondary sex traits, such as beards, deep voices, and robust faces are more effective at intimidating other men than they are at attracting women [39 ,40,41,42].”
• The role of facial hair in women's perceptions of men's attractiveness, health, masculinity and parenting abilities (2013, methodology): “Where natural photographs have been used, typically only full beards or clean-shaven faces were presented (e.g. Dixson & Vasey, 2012), which does not capture variation in men's ability to grow facial hair.”