Attractiveness and sexual behavior: Does attractiveness enhance mating success?

By Gillian Rhodes, Leigh W. Simmons, Marianne Peters. 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Contributions of the face and body to overall attractiveness (2007, methodology): “Attractiveness enhances mating success in humans, suggesting that both attractive traits and preferences for those traits may be sexually selected (Rhodes et al. 2005).”
The role of facial hair in women's perceptions of men's attractiveness, health, masculinity and parenting abilities (2013, background): “Highly masculine men tend to have lower romantic attachment, less interest in long-term relationships and report engaging inmore shortterm relationships (Rhodes et al., 2005; Boothroyd, Jones, Burt, DeBruine, & Perrett, 2008).”
The Abercrombie & Fitch Effect: The Impact of Physical Dominance on Male Customers' Status-Signaling Consumption (2018, background): “…men with bodily markers of physical dominance (e.g., imposing stature, athleticism, and upper-body musculature), on average, have a larger number of sexual partners (Rhodes, Simmons, and Peters 2005) and more reproductive success (Hill et al. 2013) thanmenwith less prominent markers of dominance.”
Self-rated attractiveness predicts individual differences in women's preferences for masculine men's voices (2008, background): “…physical traits in men are associated with some characteristics that are attractive in a mate (e.g. health), they are also associated with negative characteristics that are not desirable in a mate (e.g. low interest in children and long-term relationships, Rhodes et al., 2005; Roney et al., 2006).”
Vocal and Facial Attractiveness Judgments of Children, Adolescents and Adults: the Ontogeny of Mate Choice (2006, unknown): “This study is concerned with judgments of male facial and vocal attractiveness, both of which correlate with mating success as measured by number of sexual partners (Hughes et al. 2004; Rhodes et al. 2005).”
Facial correlates of sociosexuality (2008, background): “Contrastingly, Rhodes, Simmons, and Peters (2005) found that more feminine-looking females and more masculine-looking males reported having had more sexual partners (although more feminine-looking females also reported having had more long-term partners, suggesting that opportunity for…”
The evolutionary psychology of facial beauty. (2006, background): “Because preferences affect mate choice (e.g., Rhodes et al. 2005c), they may have evolved through sexual selection, whereby traits (including preferences) enhance reproductive success.”
Disgust and mating strategy (2015, background): “Researchers have shown that in men, but not women, physical attractiveness and related indices such as fluctuating asymmetry predict number of sex partners, number of affair partners, and other measures of short-term mating (Gangestad & Simpson, 2000; Rhodes et al., 2005).”
Cosmetic Surgery as Intrasexual Competition: The Mediating Role of Social Comparison (2014, background): “The popularity of these elective procedures is not surprising given that symmetrical and attractive facial features and a healthy BMI and waist-to-hip ratio have been linked to health and reproductive viability (e.g., Hamilton-Fairley et al., 1992; Rhodes et al., 2005; Rhodes et al., 2001; Singh, 19”