High salivary testosterone is linked to masculine male facial appearance in humans.

By Ian Penton-Voak, Jennie Chen. 2004

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

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Citations in the corpus

Correlated preferences for men's facial and vocal masculinity (2008, methodology): “…two studies lend support to the theory that women's preferences for vocal and facial masculinity are consistent, most likely because men's faces (Penton-Voak & Chen, 2004) and voices (Brukert et al., 2006; Dabbs & Mallinger, 1999) advertise common information about the senders' testosterone…”
Cross-Cultural Variation in Mate Preferences for Averageness, Symmetry, Body Size, and Masculinity (2013, background): “…masculine facial features in men is driven by the production of testosterone, wherein higher testosterone-to-estrogen ratios are related to more masculine features (Bardin & Catterall, 1981; Bruckert, Liénard, Lacrois, Kreutzer, & Leboucher, 2006; Dabbs & Mallinger, 1999; Penton-Voak & Chen, 2004).”
Egocentric Categorization and Product Judgment: Seeing Your Traits in What You Own (and Their Opposite in What You Don’t) (2013, background): “Testosterone is a stable hormone (Sellers, Mehl, and Josephs 2007) that correlates with masculinity traits among men (Penton-Voak and Chen 2004).”
Physical attractiveness of face and body as indicators of physical fitness in men (2007, background): “Facial masculinity may indicate high testosterone levels (e.g., Johnston, 2006; Penton-Voak & Chen, 2004), and testosterone promotes muscle growth (Bhasin, Woodhouse, & Storer, 2001).”
Self-rated attractiveness predicts individual differences in women's preferences for masculine men's voices (2008, background): “Masculine physical traits in men are associated with testosterone level (Dabbs & Mallinger, 1999; Penton-Voak & Chen, 2004; Roney, Hanson, Durante, & Maestripieri, 2006) and may signal men’s underlying health if men with strong immune systems are better able to withstand the immunosupressive…”
Political Ideology at Face Value (2010, background): “Dominance in turn is associated with male testosterone (Josephs, Sellers, Newman, & Mehta, 2006; McIntyre et al., 2007), which has been shown to affect male facial appearance (Penton-Voak & Chen, 2004).”
Craniofacial Feminization, Social Tolerance, and the Origins of Behavioral Modernity (2014, background): “…shape that signal high prenatal testosterone (Carré and McCormick 2008, 2009, 2012; Geniole et al. 2012; Sell et al. 2009) as well as adult circulating testosterone (Fink, Neave, and Seydel 2007; Mazur, Mazur, and Keating 1984; Penton-Voak and Chen 2004; Puts 2010; Swaddle and Reierson 2002).”