Your Face is Your Fortune: Does Adolescent Attractiveness Predict Intimate Relationships Later in Life?

Karraker, Amelia; Sicinski, Kamil; Moynihan, Donald P.

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“…First, health may become increasingly important for partnership formation with rising age because good health may help prevail against rivals when marriage market opportunities deteriorate. Moreover, health is likely to matter more at higher ages when health problems tend to emerge and when health becomes increasingly salient (Karraker, Sicinski, & Moynihan, 2017). Finally, poor health may discourage potential partners particularly in later life, because they might shy away to avoid the consequences of long-term care (Bulcroft & Bulcroft, 1991; McWilliams & Barrett, 2014; Talbott, 1998).…”

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Partnership Formation in Young and Older Age

Rapp

2018

Journal of Family Issues

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This article examines the prevalence of partnership formation at different life stages and analyses whether the determinants of partnership formation change over the life course. Data were obtained from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1992 to 2014. Event history analyses were used to examine 13,871 periods of being single, of which 8,551 ended with the beginning of an intimate relationship. The results show that the formation of intimate relationships becomes increasingly unlikely after the fourth decade of life onward, particularly for women. At the same time, several predictors of partnership formation vary substantially with age. Economic resources accelerate partnership formation particularly in midlife, whereas good health accelerates partnership formation only in later years. These results remain similar when the transition into cohabitation is examined.

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Partnership Formation in Young and Older Age

Rapp

2018

Journal of Family Issues

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“…Facial attractiveness in WLS was measured by 12 coders using an 11-point rating scale based on each individual’s 1957 high school yearbook photo. These well-characterized facial attractiveness data from WLS have expanded our knowledge on the complex relationship between facial attractiveness and various sociological traits including educational aspirations and occupation [19–22]. Recently, dense genotype data have been made available in WLS.…”

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Genome-wide association study reveals sex-specific genetic architecture of facial attractiveness

Shen

et al. 2019

PLoS Genet

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Facial attractiveness is a complex human trait of great interest in both academia and industry. Literature on sociological and phenotypic factors associated with facial attractiveness is rich, but its genetic basis is poorly understood. In this paper, we conducted a genome-wide association study to discover genetic variants associated with facial attractiveness using 4,383 samples in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. We identified two genome-wide significant loci, highlighted a handful of candidate genes, and demonstrated enrichment for heritability in human tissues involved in reproduction and hormone synthesis. Additionally, facial attractiveness showed strong and negative genetic correlations with BMI in females and with blood lipids in males. Our analysis also suggested sex-specific selection pressure on variants associated with lower male attractiveness. These results revealed sex-specific genetic architecture of facial attractiveness and provided fundamental new insights into its genetic basis.

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“…We scanned the black-and-white senior photographs of the graduates and coded two characteristics, facial attractiveness (Karraker et al 2015, Scholz & Sicinski 2015 and facial mass (Reither et al 2009). In each case, we arranged for a dozen independent codings of each characteristic, using a visually anchored scale, by college students and by participants in an elderhostel at the UW-Madison, a residential educational program for retired individuals.…”

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A Life in Sociology

Hauser

2017

Annu. Rev. Sociol.

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There has lately been a slew of movies-biopics-that depict the lives of immensely talented individuals-the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, the cryptographer and computing pioneer Alan Turing, the physicist extraordinaire Stephen Hawking, and the southern-born novelist Thomas Wolfe, among others. As I think about my life and accomplishments, I know full well that they are way out of my league. All the same, I offer the following autobiographical account. FAMILY ORIGINSMy first and most important teachers were Sylvia, Julius, and Michael Hauser. Sylvia, my mother, had high standards, and she constantly feared I would drop out of school and never return. Her fears were justified. I grew to share them, so I stayed in school decade after decade. My mother also encouraged me to read the work of the young Christopher Jencks and Richard Easterlin. She had exceptionally good taste. My father, Julius Hauser, taught me how to look at the world from the outside in, and what and who not to believe. He encouraged me to read the muckrakers-Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, and Upton Sinclair-and from dinner-table conversations, I learned how the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) really worked.My older brother, Mike, whose career encompassed both experimental high-energy particle physics and observational astrophysics, taught me that someone was always smarter, tougher, faster, harder-working, and thinner than me, and he set an example of a life in science that few can equal.My memories of childhood are few, fragmentary, and, often, unhappy. I often broke lamps or other items when my family visited the homes of relatives. Bigger kids stole or broke my balsawood gliders. I wore bifocals by the time I was seven. I transitioned from being the skinny kid who always was last picked to play touch football or basketball to the chubby kid who was always last picked. On the bright side, my brother and I built a Christmas tree of tinker toys when our parents refused to buy one, and Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry was a favorite place to visit.Two male role models dominated the family horizon. Dad was an ABD in organic chemistry from the University of Chicago and moved the family from Chicago to Washington, DC, in 1949 because he had no opportunity for advancement in the FDA's Chicago branch office. He became the house expert on regulatory law within the FDA. In that role, he wrote the first draft of the 1962 Kefauver-Harris Amendments to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which required proof of efficacy and safety, required disclosure of side effects, and concurrently introduced the first legislation mandating informed consent of participants in clinical trials. According to the Harvard political scientist and historian Daniel Carpenter, he was also responsible for the contemporary design of clinical drug trials.Dad's brother was the sociologist, demographer, and social statistician Philip M. Hauser, whose career wandered freely and frequently between federal service and a professorship at the University of Chic...

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Your Face is Your Fortune: Does Adolescent Attractiveness Predict Intimate Relationships Later in Life?

Abstract: These findings highlight the importance of relationship context for later life sexual activity and begin to explicate the pathways through which factors across the life course-particularly attractiveness-influence sexual activity in later life.

Cited by 21 publications

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Partnership Formation in Young and Older Age

Partnership Formation in Young and Older Age

Genome-wide association study reveals sex-specific genetic architecture of facial attractiveness

A Life in Sociology

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