The effects of facial hair manipulation on female perceptions of attractiveness, masculinity, and dominance in male faces

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Beauty and the beast: mechanisms of sexual selection in humans (2010, background): “Some male traits, such as beards, have been found to decrease attractiveness to women, yet have strong positive effects on men's appearance of dominance (Muscarella & Cunningham, 1996; Neave & Shields, 2008).”
The role of facial hair in women's perceptions of men's attractiveness, health, masculinity and parenting abilities (2013, background): “Given that facial hair growth begins at puberty and continues throughout adulthood, it is not surprising that beards augment perceptions of maturity and masculinity (Addison, 1989; Neave & Shields, 2008).”
Beards augment perceptions of men's age, social status, and aggressiveness, but not attractiveness (2012, background): “Some previous studies have found that bearded men are rated as more socially mature, sincere, masculine, self-confident, and courageous than clean-shaven faces (Kenny and Fletcher 1973; Pellegrini 1973; Neave and Shields 2008).”
Cross-cultural effects of color, but not morphological masculinity, on perceived attractiveness of men's faces (2012, result): “This prediction is supported by the finding that male sex-typicality on a number of traits, including beard growth (Neave & Shields, 2008), masculine voice (Puts, 2006), masculine face (DeBruine et al., 2006), and brawny build (Frederick & Haselton, 2007), increases ratings of dominance more than…”