Facial masculinity and fluctuating asymmetry

By Steven W. Gangestad, R. Thornhill. 2003

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Adaptive attentional attunement: evidence for mating-related perceptual bias (2007, background): “For example, the extent to which a woman attends to attractive male targets may depend on the stage of her menstrual cycle (Haselton & Gangestad, 2006), in concert with the extent to which male targets display cues to masculinity or good genes (Gangestad & Thornhill, 2003).”
Mating context and menstrual phase affect women's preferences for male voice pitch (2005, background): “Evidence from nonhuman animals (reviewed in Andersson, 1994) and humans (e.g., Gangestad & Thornhill, 2003; Scheib, Gangestad, & Thornhill, 1999) suggests that some masculine traits are reliable fitness indicators, and genetic transmission of these fitness benefits has been demonstrated in some sp”
Correlated preferences for men's facial and vocal masculinity (2008, background): “Other work on humans has determined that men also send multiple correlated cues of mate quality, such as symmetry and masculinity (Gangestad & Thornhill, 2003) and symmetry and visible skin condition (Jones et al., 2004), potentially producing a better overall assessment of generalized mate quality…”
Women's preferences for masculinity in male faces are predicted by pathogen disgust, but not by moral or sexual disgust (2010, background): “Male facial masculinity is also positively correlated with symmetry, a potential signal of developmental stability (Gangestad & Thornhill, 2003; Little, Jones, Waitt et al., 2008).”
Beauty and the beast: mechanisms of sexual selection in humans (2010, background): “Some studies have found that men's symmetry and masculinity correlate, as might be predicted if both features index underlying genetic quality (Gangestad & Thornhill, 2003; Scheib et al., 1999).”
The relationship between shape symmetry and perceived skin condition in male facial attractiveness (2004, methodology): “Furthermore, a masculinity index derived from measurements of facial characteristics, first identified as being sexually dimorphic, was not associated with symmetry in male faces (Penton-Voak et al., 2001; but for a positive result, see Gangestad & Thornhill, 2003).”
Sociosexuality from Argentina to Zimbabwe: A 48-nation study of sex, culture, and strategies of human mating (2005, background): “It is, however, a strategy based on selectively desiring men of high status, dominance, and genetic quality (Gangestad & Thornhill 1997; 2003; Thornhill & Gangestad 2003).”
The relative importance of the face and body in judgments of human physical attractiveness (2009, background): “Correlations between facial symmetry and facial sexual dimorphism have also been taken as evidence that both traits signal some common underlying value (Gangestad & Thornhill, 2003; Little et al., 2008).”
Facial symmetry and judgements of attractiveness, health and personality (2006, background): “Two recent studies (Gangestad & Thornhill, 2003; Thornhill & Gangestad, 2006) indicate that the degree of facial masculinity is an honest signal of quality in men.”
Are human preferences for facial symmetry focused on signals of developmental instability (2004, background): “The evidence for a relationship between masculinity and symmetry is equally conflicting (Gangestad and Thornhill, 2003; Penton-Voak et al., 2001; Scheib et al., 1999).”
THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS (2005, background): “Jaw size and prominent cheekbones (the first a masculine trait, the second not; see also Gangestad & Thornhill 2003a; compare Koehler et al. 2004) covaried with symmetry and was able to account for its association with attractiveness.”