Male facial attractiveness: evidence for hormone-mediated adaptive design

By V. Johnston, Rebecca Hagel, Melissa Franklin, B. Fink, Karl Grammer. 2001

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Marketing, Museology

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Non-commercial Research and Educational Use including without Limitation Use in Instruction at Your Institution, Sending It to Specific Colleagues That You Know, and Providing a Copy to Your Institution's Administrator. All Other Uses, Reproduction and Distribution, including without Limitation Comm (2005, neutral): “All these methods require considerable A u t h o r ' s p e r s o n a l”
Desiring the Muscular Ideal: Men's Body Satisfaction in the United States, Ukraine, and Ghana (2007, background): “…preferences for short-term and long-term partners parallels other research, which finds that women prefer characteristics such as facial masculinity (Johnston et al., 2001) and muscularity (Frederick & Haselton, 2006) more strongly when considering men as short-term rather than long-term partners.”
Facial masculinity and fluctuating asymmetry (2003, result): “The literature is not consistent in this regard, however; other studies have found that women find masculine faces more attractive (e.g., Johnston et al., 2001; Keating, 1985) or that they prefer neither masculinized nor feminized faces over average faces (e.g., Swaddle & Reierson, 2002).”
Conditional mate preferences: Factors influencing preferences for height (2008, background): “Support for this heritable fitness perspective comes from research showing that women prefer these traits most strongly when the only benefits they might receive are genetic, such as in a short-term mate (Frederick & Haselton, 2007; Johnston et al., 2001 ) or when they are most likely to conceive, ”
Mating context and menstrual phase affect women's preferences for male voice pitch (2005, background): “For example, women’s mate preferences vary with probability of conception, such that women in the follicular (fertile) phase of their menstrual cycles exhibit preference shifts toward more masculine facial features ( Johnston, Hagel, Franklin, Fink, & Grammer, 2001; Penton-Voak et al., 1999; Penton”
Beyond "Pink It and Shrink It" Perceived Product Gender, Aesthetics, and Product Evaluation (2015, background): “Skin condition has also been explored as an indicator of the value of a female mate (Symons, 1979): Smooth skin signals female fertility and affects male judgments of attractiveness (Johnston et al., 2001).”
Sex similarities and differences in preferences for short-term mates: what, whether, and why. (2006, methodology): “... how might it be the case that the underlying reasons may be different? We ran Study 5 as an open-ended survey to explore more carefully the specific features people consider physically attractive for casual sex and why they think they do. We were interested in gathering additional information re”
High salivary testosterone is linked to masculine male facial appearance in humans. (2004, methodology): “The results of these studies are somewhat inconsistent, with some finding an overall preference for masculine faces (e.g., Johnston et al., 2001) and others finding preferences for average (Swaddle & Reierson, 2002) or feminised male faces (Perrett et al., 1998).”
Cross-Cultural Variation in Mate Preferences for Averageness, Symmetry, Body Size, and Masculinity (2013, background): “…competence) are preferred over feminine faces (cueing parental and resource investment) by women in the fertile phase of their menstrual cycle (Johnston et al., 2001; Little, Jones, & DeBruine, 2008; Penton-Voak & Perrett, 2000; Penton-Voak et al., 1999) or life cycle (Little et al., 2010)…”