The face of female dominance: Women with dominant faces have lower cortisol
The face of female dominance: Women with dominant faces have lower cortisol
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DOI：
10.1016/j.yhbeh.2015.03.006
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发表时间：
2015-05-01
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3.5
通讯作者：
Puts, David A.
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作者：
Gonzalez-Santoyo, Isaac;Wheatley, John R.;Puts, David A.
人脸显示了丰富的信息，包括关于优势和繁殖力的信息。优势和生育能力也与压力激素皮质醇的浓度较低有关，这表明皮质醇可能会对面部优势和吸引力产生负面影响。我们用数码技术拍摄了61名女性的脸部照片，让男性和女性对这些照片进行了统治力、吸引力和女性气质的评分，并探讨了这些感知与女性唾液皮质醇浓度之间的关系。在第一项研究中，我们发现，拥有更有统治力的面孔，但不是更有吸引力的面孔的女性皮质醇水平较低。这些关联不是由于年龄、种族、清醒时间、睾酮或其与皮质醇的相互作用。在第二项研究中，低皮质醇女性的合成图像被认为比高皮质醇女性的合成图像更占主导地位，这比两个样本的观众的机会要多得多，在第三个样本中也有类似但不显著的趋势。然而，数据的吸引力的看法是混合的;低皮质醇的图像被认为是更有吸引力的两个样本的美国观众和墨西哥观众的样本作为不太有吸引力。我们的研究结果表明，有一个更明显的脸可能与较低的压力，因此较低的皮质醇的女性，并提供进一步的证据，关于人脸的信息内容。(C)2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
The human face displays a wealth of information, including information about dominance and fecundity. Dominance and fecundity are also associated with lower concentrations of the stress hormone cortisol, suggesting that cortisol may negatively predict facial dominance and attractiveness. We digitally photographed 61 women's faces, had these images rated by men and women for dominance, attractiveness, and femininity, and explored relationships between these perceptions and women's salivary cortisol concentrations. In a first study, we found that women with more dominant-appearing, but not more attractive, faces had lower cortisol levels. These associations were not due to age, ethnicity, time since waking, testosterone, or its interaction with cortisol. In a second study, composite images of women with low cortisol were perceived as more dominant than those of women with high cortisol significantly more often than chance by two samples of viewers, with a similar but non-significant trend in a third sample. However, data on perceptions of attractiveness were mixed; low-cortisol images were viewed as more attractive by two samples of US viewers and as less attractive by a sample of Mexican viewers. Our results suggest that having a more dominant-appearing face may be associated with lower stress and hence lower cortisol in women, and provide further evidence regarding the information content of the human face. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.