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EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
卷 24, 期 4, 页码 231-241出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S1090-5138(03)00017-5
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developmental instability; facial masculinity; physical attractiveness; sexual selection; menstrual cycle
Recently, women have been found to prefer the scent of symmetrical men and relatively masculine male faces more during the fertile (late follicular. and ovulatory) phases of their menstrual cycles than during their infertile (e.g., luteal) phases. These findings make most theoretical sense if men's symmetry is associated with the masculinity of their faces and, therefore, men's symmetry and facial masculinity tap a shared underlying quality. This study examined associations between masculine facial features and nonfacial body symmetry as well as facial symmetry in samples of 141 men and 154 women. As predicted, a component of facial features that discriminates the sexes and reflects masculinization of the face significantly covaried with symmetry in men. No significant correlation was observed for women. These findings suggest that men's facial masculinity partly advertises underlying developmental stability. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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