Facial attractiveness and preference of sexual dimorphism: A comparison across five populations
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F21%3A10429761" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/21:10429761 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11510/21:10429761
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=9ndwl.eFR9" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=9ndwl.eFR9</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2021.33" target="_blank" >10.1017/ehs.2021.33</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Facial attractiveness and preference of sexual dimorphism: A comparison across five populations
Original language description
Despite intensive research, evolutionary psychology has not yet reached a consensus regarding the associ- ation between sexual dimorphism and attractiveness. This study examines associations between perceived and morphological facial sexual dimorphism and perceived attractiveness in samples from five distant coun- tries (Cameroon, Colombia, Czechia, Iran and Turkey). We also examined possible moderating effects of skin lightness, averageness, age, body mass and facial width. Our results suggest that in all samples, women's perceived femininity was positively related to their perceived attractiveness. Women found perceived mas- culinity in men attractive only in Czechia and Colombia, two distant populations. The association between perceived sexual dimorphism and attractiveness is thus potentially universal only for women. Across populations, morphological sexual dimorphism and averageness are not universally associated with either perceived facial sexual dimorphism or attractiveness. With our exploratory approach, results highlight the need for control of which measure of sexual dimorphism is used (perceived or measured) because they affect perceived attractiveness differently. Morphological averageness and sexual dimorphism are not good predic- tors of perceived attractiveness. It is noted that future studies should use samples from multiple populations to allow for identification of specific effects of local environmental and socioeconomic conditions on preferred traits in unmanipulated local facial stimuli.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA21-10527S" target="_blank" >GA21-10527S: Cross-cultural patterns in facial typicality: disentangling the joint effects of sex-typicality, group-typicality, and psychological stereotypes</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Evolutionary Human Sciences [online]
ISSN
2513-843X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
3
Issue of the periodical within the volume
July
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
e38
UT code for WoS article
000775496800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85109389754