Effect of partnership status on preferences for facial self-resemblance
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/16:10328613 RIV/00216208:11240/16:10328613
Result on the web
<a href="http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00869/full" target="_blank" >http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00869/full</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00869" target="_blank" >10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00869</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Effect of partnership status on preferences for facial self-resemblance
Original language description
Self-resemblance has been found to have a context-dependent effect when expressing preferences for faces. Whereas dissimilarity preference during mate choice in animals is often explained as an evolutionary adaptation to increase heterozygosity of offspring, self-resemblance can be also favored in humans, reflecting, e.g., preference for kinship cues. We performed two studies, using transformations of facial photographs to manipulate levels of resemblance with the rater, to examine the influence of selfresemblance in single vs. coupled individuals. Raters assessed facial attractiveness of other-sex and same-sex photographs according to both short-term and long-term relationship contexts. We found a preference for dissimilarity of other-sex and same-sex faces in single individuals, but no effect of self-resemblance in coupled raters. No effect of sex of participant or short-term vs. long-term attractiveness rating was observed. The results support the evolutionary interpretation that dissimilarity of other-sex faces is preferred by uncoupled individuals as an adaptive mechanism to avoid inbreeding. In contrast, lower dissimilarity preference of other-sex faces in coupled individuals may reflect suppressed attention to attractiveness cues in potential alternative partners as a relationship maintenance mechanism, and its substitution by attention to cues of kinship and psychological similarity connected with greater likelihood of prosocial behavior acquisition from such persons.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
FL - Psychiatry, sexology
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Frontiers in Psychology
ISSN
1664-1078
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
7
Issue of the periodical within the volume
June
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
"Article Number: 869"
UT code for WoS article
000377663100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84979999654