Male facial attractiveness, perceived personality, and child-directed speech

Penton-Voak, Ian S.; Cahill, Stephanie; Pound, Nicholas; Kempe, Vera; Schaeffler, Sonja; Schaeffler, Felix

doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2007.03.002

Cited by 12 publications

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“…Researchers have obtained similar patterns of gender-related biases for social evaluations other than attractiveness. For example, gendered phenotypes have been shown to predict diverse social judgments, including a person’s respectability, sincerity, prosociality, honesty, warmth, loyalty, likability, intelligence, and dependability (Lick & Johnson, 2013; Little, Jones, Penton-Voak, Burt, & Perrett, 2002; Penton-Voak et al, 2007; Principe & Langlois, 2012; Sczensy et al, 2006). The direction of these effects is common to judgments of both men and women, such that feminine targets of both sexes receive more favorable evaluations than their masculine counterparts.…”

Section: Gender-related Biases In Social Perceptionmentioning

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Recalibrating gender perception: Face aftereffects and the perceptual underpinnings of gender-related biases.

Lick¹,

Johnson²

2014

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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Contemporary perceivers encounter highly gendered imagery in media, social networks, and the workplace. Perceivers also express strong interpersonal biases related to targets' gendered appearances after mere glimpses at their faces. In the current studies, we explored adaptation to gendered facial features as a perceptual mechanism underlying these biases. In Study 1, brief visual exposure to highly gendered exemplars shifted perceptual norms for men's and women's faces. Studies 2-4 revealed that changes in perceptual norms were accompanied by notable shifts in social evaluations. Specifically, exposure to feminine phenotypes exacerbated biases against hypermasculine faces, whereas exposure to masculine phenotypes mitigated them. These findings replicated across multiple independent samples with diverse stimulus sets and outcome measures, revealing that perceptual gender norms are calibrated on the basis of recent visual encounters, with notable implications for downstream evaluations of others. As such, visual adaptation is a useful tool for understanding and altering social biases related to gendered facial features.

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Section: Gender-related Biases In Social Perceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recalibrating gender perception: Face aftereffects and the perceptual underpinnings of gender-related biases.

Lick¹,

Johnson²

2014

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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“…The attraction toward a specific male subject will therefore be guided by psycho-emotional reasons, ranging from mere opportunistic interest-for example, interest for the man's wealth or social status-to personal esteem and admiration, up to a profound resonance of feelings and emotions that the female subject feels to be shared with that particular man. From Tie-Up Theory we say, therefore, that female subjects are emotionally active, that is, they elaborate their attraction toward male subjects from a mental and emotional viewpoint (Penton-Voak et al, 2007).…”

Section: Shakespeare In Love: the Formation Of The Long-term Couple In The Perspective Of The Tie-up Theorymentioning

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Shakespeare in Love: A Fictional Transliteration of the Grammar of Heterosexual Mating

Basili¹,

Sacco

2019

Sage Open

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This article explores the structure of the male-female interaction in the human mating process from the perspective of the so-called Tie-Up Theory, applying it to the analysis of a cinematic fictional narrative, namely the Shakespeare in love movie. We look at romantic fictional narratives as possible simulations with a social cognition valence, and show that, in the case study under exam, the actual structure of the interaction between the two main characters reflects the basic steps of a successful mating process. In view of this, the fact that the long-term couple is not formed at the end of the story neither jeopardizes its social cognition valence, nor the audience's need and expectation of an emotional climax, as what makes the difference in terms of social cognition is not the story outcome, but the process that leads to it. Our research makes a case for a renewed interest toward romantic fictional comedies as an interesting source of insight into real mating-related interactions, provided that such narratives are socially validated in terms of audience response and intergenerational transmission.

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“…Recent evidence supports the assumption that masculinity provides a cue to heritable quality (e.g. Little et al 2008) and that there are reliable cues to potential willingness and ability to invest paternal care in the male face (Roney et al 2006;Penton-Voak et al 2007). There is no direct evidence, however, to support the assumption that variation in preferences results from requirements for investment in offspring.…”

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Female reproductive strategy predicts preferences for sexual dimorphism in male faces

Moore¹,

Smith²,

Cassidy³

et al. 2009

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology

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The aim of the current studies was to test an assumption that variation in female preferences for sexually dimorphic male facial characteristics reflects strategic optimisation of investment in offspring. A negative relationship was predicted between ideal number of children and preferences for masculine male face shapes, as the benefits of securing paternal investment should outweigh the benefits of securing good genes as the costs of raising offspring increase. In Study 1 desired number of children and preferences for masculine face shapes were compared in a sample of female students. In study 2, the prediction was tested in a sample with a wider age profile while controlling for relationship status. Preferences for explicit partner characteristics were also assessed. The prediction was supported: women who desired a higher number of children preferred more feminine male face shapes and ranked cues to investment of parental care over cues to immunocompetence in a partner more highly than those who desired fewer children. Results indicate that female mate preferences vary with reproductive strategy and support assumptions that preferences for feminine male faces reflect preferences for "good dads".

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Male facial attractiveness, perceived personality, and child-directed speech

Cited by 12 publications

References 25 publications

Recalibrating gender perception: Face aftereffects and the perceptual underpinnings of gender-related biases.

Recalibrating gender perception: Face aftereffects and the perceptual underpinnings of gender-related biases.

Shakespeare in Love: A Fictional Transliteration of the Grammar of Heterosexual Mating

Female reproductive strategy predicts preferences for sexual dimorphism in male faces

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