Men's, but not women's, sociosexual orientation predicts couples' perceptions of sexually dimorphic cues in own-sex faces.
Men's, but not women's, sociosexual orientation predicts couples' perceptions of sexually dimorphic cues in own-sex faces.
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男性而非女性的社会性取向可以预测夫妻对同性面孔中性别二态性线索的看法。
DOI：
10.1007/s10508-013-0202-1
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Kandrik M
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作者：
Kandrik M
先前的研究表明，人们对同性个体的看法可以根据他们浪漫伴侣的性策略的个体内差异而改变。例如，在伴侣月经周期的生育期，男性更有可能认为其他男性的脸看起来特别占主导地位，而此时女性往往对未承诺的性关系更加开放。相比之下，人们对伴侣对未承诺的性关系的开放性的相对稳定的个体差异知之甚少（即，他们的社会性取向）预测自己的性别个体的看法。修订后的社会性取向量表（SOI-R）评估了个人对非承诺性关系的开放性，并在很长一段时间内显示出高的重测信度。因此，我们测试了异性恋浪漫夫妇中男性和女性的SOI-R分数是否预测了他们对显示夸大的性别典型线索的同性面孔的看法。男性（而非女性）的SOI-R与夫妻中的男性和女性在多大程度上归因于具有夸大的性别典型线索的同性面孔的高支配力和吸引力呈正相关。换句话说，在男性对未承诺的性关系特别开放的夫妇中，个体更有可能将优势和吸引力归因于显示出良好表型条件的假定线索的同性个体。这些发现表明，男性和女性对潜在竞争对手的看法对男性伴侣的性策略很敏感。这种认知的个体差异可能有利于男性竞争额外配对和/或替代配偶的能力，并有利于女性的配偶保护行为。
Previous research suggests that people’s perceptions of own-sex individuals can change according to within-individual variation in their romantic partners’ sexual strategies. For example, men are more likely to perceive other men’s faces as looking particularly dominant during the fertile phase of their partner’s menstrual cycle, when women tend to be more open to uncommitted sexual relationships. By contrast, little is known about how relatively stable between-individuals differences in partners’ openness to uncommitted sexual relationships (i.e., their sociosexual orientation) predict perceptions of own-sex individuals. The revised Sociosexual Orientation Inventory (SOI-R) assesses individuals’ openness to uncommitted sexual relationships and shows high test–retest reliability over long periods of time. Consequently, we tested whether the SOI-R scores of men and women in heterosexual romantic couples predicted their perceptions of own-sex faces displaying exaggerated sex-typical cues. Men’s, but not women’s, SOI-R was positively correlated with the extent to which both the man and woman within a couple ascribed high dominance and attractiveness to own-sex faces with exaggerated sex-typical cues. In other words, individuals in couples where the man reported being particularly open to uncommitted sexual relationships were more likely to ascribe dominance and attractiveness to own-sex individuals displaying a putative cue of good phenotypic condition. These findings suggest that both men’s and women’s perceptions of potential competitors for mates are sensitive to the male partner’s sexual strategy. Such individual differences in perceptions may benefit men’s ability to compete for extra-pair and/or replacement mates and benefit women’s mate guarding behaviors.