Facial attractiveness predicts longevity

By Joshua J. A. Henderson, J. Anglin. 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Marketing

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In Clinical Psychology

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2. Marianne Peters
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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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2. Marianne Peters
3. Leigh W. Simmons
4. G. G. Gallup
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6. Steven W. Gangestad
7. G. Scheyd
8. Richard J. Stevenson

In Marketing

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Citations in the corpus

• Ratings of voice attractiveness predict sexual behavior and body configuration (2004, background): “Therefore, since ratings of facial attractiveness predict semen quality in males (Soler et al., 2003) and longevity in both males and females ( Henderson & Anglin, 2003 ), voice attractiveness may be an indicator (albeit indirect) of other fitness-related features as well.”
• The evolutionary psychology of facial beauty. (2006, background): “Attractiveness is moderately associated with longevity (Henderson & Anglin 2003), weakly associated with physical fitness, independent of current exercise levels (Honekopp et al. 2004), and moderately to strongly associated with indices of sperm quality (Soler et al. 2003).”
• Viewing attractive or unattractive same-sex individuals changes self-rated attractiveness and face preferences in women (2006, unknown): “…humans the link between attractiveness and health is a debated topic (Shackelford & Larsen 1999), although some studies show that face traits that are associated with attractiveness are related to health (Rhodes et al. 2001) and that attractiveness is related to longevity (Henderson & Anglin 2003).”
• The Science of Sex Appeal: An Evolutionary Perspective (2010, background): “By sampling photographs taken from old high school yearbooks and matching them with obituary records, Henderson and Anglin (2003) discovered that both men and women with faces that contemporary college students rated as being attractive lived longer.”
• Cosmetic Surgery as Intrasexual Competition: The Mediating Role of Social Comparison (2014, background): “Morphological features signifying youth and health serve as visible cues to one’s reproductive value and viability as a mate (Buss & Schmitt, 1993; Henderson & Anglin, 2003; Shackelford & Larsen, 1999; Symons, 1979; c.f. Weeden & Sabini, 2005).”
• THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS (2005, background): “Hume & Montgomerie (2001) and Henderson & Anglin (2003) found associations between facial attractiveness and relative absence of past health problems and longevity, respectively (see also Langlois et al. 2000; compare Kalick et al. 1998).”
• Disgust as a disease-avoidance mechanism. (2009, background): “People generally demonstrate strong preferences for faces they perceive to be healthy (Grammer & Thornhill, 1994; Henderson & Anglin, 2003; Kalick, Zebrowitz, Langlois, & Johnston, 1998; Rhodes et al., 2001), and facial attractiveness may provide a heuristic cue for disease threat (Park et al.,…”
• Are human preferences for facial symmetry focused on signals of developmental instability (2004, background): “Recent work suggests that facial attractiveness is associated with longevity (Henderson and Anglin, 2003).”