Changing perceptions of attractiveness as observers are exposed to a different culture
Changing perceptions of attractiveness as observers are exposed to a different culture
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DOI：
10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2006.05.004
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发表时间：
2006-11-01
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
Mangalparsad, Roshila
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作者：
Tovee, Martin J.;Swami, Viren;Mangalparsad, Roshila
有人提出，某些生理线索可以用来预测配偶的质量，因此对这些线索的敏感性将是自适应的。由此可见，在这些特征的最佳值不同的环境中，吸引力偏好也应该不同。在这项研究中，我们发现英国白种人和南非南非祖鲁观察者在对女性身材的吸引力偏好上存在显著差异。这些差异可以用两种环境中不同的生存和繁殖的局部最优来解释。在英国，高体重与低健康和低生育率相关，而在南部农村，情况正好相反。我们还报告了移居英国的祖鲁人在吸引力偏好上的显著变化。这表明，这些偏好是可塑性的，可以随着暴露在不同的环境和条件下而改变。此外，我们还发现，在英国出生和长大的非洲裔英国人与我们的英国高加索观察者有着完全相同的偏好。这些结果表明，人类拥有获得高度可塑性的吸引力标准的机制，这使得他们能够通过学习来跟踪不同的生态条件。(C)2006 Elsevier Inc.保留所有权利。
It has been suggested that certain physical cues can be used to predict mate quality and that sensitivity to these cues would therefore be adaptive. From this, it follows that in environments where the optimal values for these features differ, the attractiveness preferences should also be different. In this study, we show that there are striking differences in attractiveness preferences for female bodies between United Kingdom (UK) Caucasian and South Aftican Zulu observers. These differences can be explained by different local optima for survival and reproduction in the two environments. In the UK, a high body mass is correlated with low health and low fertility, and the converse is true in rural South Affica. We also report significant changes in the attractiveness preferences of Zulus who have moved to the UK. This suggests that these preferences are malleable and can change with exposure to different environments and conditions. Additionally, we show that Britons of Aftican origin, who were born and who grew up in the UK, have exactly the same preferences as our UK Caucasian observers. These results suggest that humans have mechanisms for acquiring norms of attractiveness that are highly plastic, which allow them to track different ecological conditions through learning. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.