Changes in estradiol predict within-women shifts in attraction to facial cues of men's testosterone

Roney, James R.; Simmons, Zachary L.; Gray, Peter B.

doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2010.10.010

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“…All assays passed Salimetrics' quality control. Estradiol, progesterone, and testosterone were assayed because changes in these hormones have been implicated in studies of within-woman changes in perceptual judgments of faces (reviewed in Roney et al, 2011).…”

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“…For example, studies have reported that women's preferences for masculine men are positively correlated with their estradiol (e.g., Roney & Simmons, 2008;Roney et al, 2011) or testosterone (e.g., Welling et al, 2007;Bobst et al, 2014) levels. By contrast with the relatively large number of studies 4 investigating how women's perceptions of others' attractiveness covary with changes in women's hormone levels, no previous studies have tested for effects of women's hormone levels on the motivational salience of facial attractiveness.…”

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“…Since the relationship between men's facial attractiveness and sexual 5 dimorphism is complex (reviewed in Roney et al, 2011), with many studies finding no correlation between sexual dimorphism and attractiveness, we also tested for possible effects of hormone levels on the motivational salience of sexual dimorphism in faces. Given that sexual dimorphism and attractiveness are more reliably and highly correlated in female than male faces (see Rhodes, 2006 for a meta-analytic review), the effects of hormone levels on responses to attractiveness and sexual dimorphism in female faces may be more similar than the corresponding effects for male faces.…”

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Women's hormone levels modulate the motivational salience of facial attractiveness and sexual dimorphism

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Hahn

Fisher

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Psychoneuroendocrinology

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2Women's hormone levels modulate the motivational salience of facial attractiveness and sexual dimorphism AbstractThe physical attractiveness of faces is positively correlated with both behavioral and neural measures of their motivational salience. Although previous work suggests that hormone levels modulate women's perceptions of others' facial attractiveness, studies have not yet investigated whether hormone levels also modulate the motivational salience of facial characteristics. To address this issue, we investigated the relationships between within-subject changes in women's salivary hormone levels (estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, and estradiol-to-progesterone ratio) and within-subject changes in the motivational salience of attractiveness and sexual dimorphism in male and female faces. The motivational salience of physically attractive faces in general and feminine female faces, but not masculine male faces, was greater in test sessions where women had high testosterone levels. Additionally, the reward value of sexually dimorphic faces in general and attractive female faces, but not attractive male faces, was greater in test sessions where women had high estradiol-to-progesterone ratios. These results provide the first evidence that the motivational salience of facial attractiveness and sexual dimorphism is modulated by within-woman changes in hormone levels.

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Women's hormone levels modulate the motivational salience of facial attractiveness and sexual dimorphism

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Fisher

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“…For example, preferences for masculine characteristics in men's faces tend to be stronger when women's testosterone (Bobst et al, 2014;Welling et al, 2007) and/or estradiol (Roney & Simmons, 2008;Roney et al, 2011) levels are high. While these studies focused on women's judgments of the attractiveness of men's faces, other studies have investigated the effects of changes in women's hormone levels on their perceptions of emotional expressions in adult faces Derntl et al, 2008;Guapo et al, 2009).…”

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The reward value of infant facial cuteness tracks within-subject changes in women's salivary testosterone

Hahn

DeBruine

Fisher

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Hormones and Behavior

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between the reward value of infant facial cuteness and within-woman changes in testosterone, estradiol, and progesterone levels. Multilevel modeling of these data showed that infant cuteness was more rewarding when women's salivary testosterone levels were high. Moreover, this within-woman effect of testosterone was independent of the possible effects of estradiol and progesterone and was not simply a consequence of changes in women's cuteness perceptions. These results suggest that testosterone may modulate differential responses to infant facial cuteness, potentially revealing a new route through which testosterone shapes selective allocation of parental resources.

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“…Another finding on this matter indicates that women close to ovulation or looking for a short-term relationship find masculine faces attractive, while during a large part of their menstrual cycles and particularly when looking for a long-term relationship, they prefer men with faces that show low dominance (98,99). Thus the level of masculine face preference in women was found to be associated with their blood estrogen levels (99).…”

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The neurobiology and evolutionary foundations of the perception of beauty

Eşel¹

2017

Dusunen Adam

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The neurobiology and evolutionary foundations of the perception of beauty Beauty in human beings can be defined as physical attractiveness to the opposite sex. Although the perception of attractiveness varies between cultures and individuals to a certain extent, it is established that most of the criteria for attractiveness are common among many cultures. According to evolutionary psychologists, facial and body-related features that people find attractive reflect the adaptations determined by sexual selection, which is one of the driving forces of evolution. These adaptations evolved to explore the mate value and reproductive success of a potential partner. Being attractive provides many social advantages to a person, and it is known that people make some positive attributions about other characteristics of such a person as well. Among humans, features such as facial beauty, youth, body shape, behaviors, voice tone, and ornamentation are important factors in the evaluation of attractiveness of the opposite sex.Keywords: Attractiveness, evolutionary psychology, mate selection, neurobiology ÖZET Güzellik algılamasının nörobiyolojisi ve evrimsel temelleriİnsanda güzellik kavramı karşı cins tarafından fiziksel olarak çekici bulunma niteliği olarak tanımlanabilir. Kültüre ve kişiye göre güzellik algılaması bir miktar değişken olsa da çoğu kültürde güzellik ölçütlerinin önemli bir bölümünün ortak olduğu ortaya konulmaktadır. Evrimci psikologlara göre insanların karşı cinste güzel bulduğu yüz ve bedenle ilişkili özellikler daha çok evrimin itici güçlerinden birisi olan cinsel seçilimin şekillendirdiği adaptasyonları yansıtmaktadır. Bu adaptasyonlar potansiyel bir eşin eş olarak değerinin ve üreme başarısının araştırılmasına yönelik olarak gelişmişlerdir. Güzel olmanın sosyal yaşamda kişiye sağladığı birçok faydalar olduğu gibi, bu kişilere diğer insanlarca başka kişisel özellikler bakımından da olumlu atıflar yapıldığı bilinmektedir.İnsanlarda karşı cinsin güzelliğinin değerlendirilmesinde bakılan kişinin yüz güzelliği, genç görünümü, beden şekli, davranışları, ses tonu ve süslenmesi gibi etkenler önemli bulunmaktadır.

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Changes in estradiol predict within-women shifts in attraction to facial cues of men's testosterone

Cited by 81 publications

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Women's hormone levels modulate the motivational salience of facial attractiveness and sexual dimorphism

Women's hormone levels modulate the motivational salience of facial attractiveness and sexual dimorphism

The reward value of infant facial cuteness tracks within-subject changes in women's salivary testosterone

The neurobiology and evolutionary foundations of the perception of beauty

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