No evidence that facial attractiveness, femininity, averageness, or coloration are cues to susceptibility to infectious illnesses in a university sample of young adult women
No evidence that facial attractiveness, femininity, averageness, or coloration are cues to susceptibility to infectious illnesses in a university sample of young adult women
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DOI：
10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.10.002
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发表时间：
2019-03-01
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
Jones, Benedict C.
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作者：
Cai, Ziyi;Hahn, Amanda C.;Jones, Benedict C.
以前有报道称，拥有漂亮脸蛋的女性更健康，这被广泛引用为性选择塑造了人类择偶偏好的证据。然而，女性的身体健康和面部吸引力之间的相关性的证据是模棱两可的。此外，在这个问题上的积极结果通常来自对小样本自我报告健康状况的研究。目前的研究对完成四种不同健康问卷评估传染病易感性的妇女（N = 590）进行了标准化面部照片。在这些妇女中，221人还提供了唾液样本，用于免疫球蛋白A（免疫功能的标志物）测定。分析显示，面部吸引力与任何健康问卷或唾液免疫球蛋白A的得分之间没有显著相关性。此外，没有令人信服的证据表明，客观测量的面部形状的性别二型性，面部形状的平均程度，或面部颜色与我们的任何健康措施相关。虽然其他健康指标可能与面部外观有很强的关联，但这些无效结果并不支持女性面部吸引力是年轻成年女性对传染病易感性的重要和有影响力的假设，至少在我们的研究人群中是如此。
Previous reports that women with attractive faces are healthier have been widely cited as evidence that sexual selection has shaped human mate preferences. However, evidence for correlations between women's physical health and facial attractiveness is equivocal. Moreover, positive results on this issue have generally come from studies of self-reported health in small samples. The current study took standardized face photographs of women who completed four different health questionnaires assessing susceptibility to infectious illnesses (N = 590). Of these women, 221 also provided a saliva sample that was assayed for immunoglobulin A (a marker of immune function). Analyses showed no significant correlations between rated facial attractiveness and either scores on any of the health questionnaires or salivary immunoglobulin A. Furthermore there was no compelling evidence that objective measures of sexual dimorphism of face shape, averageness of face shape, or facial coloration were correlated with any of our health measures. While other measures of health may yet reveal robust associations with facial appearance, these null results do not support the prominent and influential assumption that women's facial attractiveness is a cue of young adult women's susceptibility to infectious illnesses, at least in our study population.