Populational differences in attractiveness judgements of male and female faces: Comparing British and Jamaican samples

By Ian Penton-Voak, A. Jacobson, Robert Trivers. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Marketing

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The evolutionary psychology of facial beauty. (2006, background): “…thin lips, square chins, and small eyes) were preferred to feminized ones (Keating 1985), but more recent studies using photographic sex continua generally show a preference for feminized male faces (Penton-Voak et al. 2004, Perrett et al. 1998, Rhodes et al. 2000; but see Johnston et al. 2001).”
THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS (2005, background): “Penton-Voak et al. (2004) proposed that women’s preference for masculinity should have been selected to be sensitive to cues of the relative value of condition (and genetic benefits) and investment of male mates in their local ecologies.”
Women's preferences for masculinity in male faces are predicted by pathogen disgust, but not by moral or sexual disgust (2010, background): “…previous findings implicating pathogen prevalence in cross-cultural differences in women's mate strategies (Gangestad & Buss, 1993; Low, 1990; Penton-Voak et al., 2004) and present new evidence for the role of pathogen disgust sensitivity in individual differences in masculinity preferences.”
Cross-Cultural Variation in Mate Preferences for Averageness, Symmetry, Body Size, and Masculinity (2013, background): “Penton-Voak, Jacobson, and Trivers (2004) compared preferences for male facial masculinity in British 176 Cross-Cultural Research 47(2) women with those of women living in rural Jamaica where health care is relatively more limited and pathogens are more common.”
Male facial masculinity influences attributions of personality and reproductive strategy (2006, methodology): “In Jamaica, parasite load is higher, medical care is less common, and male parental investment is lower than in Britain.”
Correlated preferences for men's facial and vocal masculinity (2008, background): “t1:10 omen's attractiveness as rated by men + Penton-Voak et al. (2003)”
Cross-cultural effects of color, but not morphological masculinity, on perceived attractiveness of men's faces (2012, background): “Masculinity preferences have been shown to vary cross-culturally, with masculinity preferred more in countries with lower standards of health than in countries with high standards of health (DeBruine, Jones, Crawford, Welling, & Little, 2010; Penton-Voak et al., 2004; Scott, Swami, Josephson, & Pent”