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Effect of partnership status on preferences for facial self-resemblance

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023752%3A_____%2F16%3A43915099" target="_blank" >RIV/00023752:_____/16:43915099 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • 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

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

  • CEP classification

    FL - Psychiatry, sexology

  • OECD FORD branch

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

  • 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