Pathogen disgust predicts women's preferences for masculinity in men's voices, faces, and bodies
Pathogen disgust predicts women's preferences for masculinity in men's voices, faces, and bodies
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DOI：
10.1093/beheco/ars173
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发表时间：
2013-03-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
DeBruine, Lisa M.
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作者：
Jones, Benedict C.;Feinberg, David R.;DeBruine, Lisa M.
最近的研究表明，与病原体相关的因素可能会导致女性对男性面部男子气概偏好的系统性变化。然而，几乎没有证据表明病原体相关因素与女性在其他领域(例如，男性的声音或身体)对男子气概的偏好之间存在类似的相关性。因此，我们进行了一系列研究，以检验病原体厌恶(使用Tybur等人的三个厌恶领域进行评估)是否可以预测女性对男性声音、身体和面部男性特征的偏好的个体差异。我们还测试了病原体厌恶是否以同样的方式预测了女性实际配偶选择的个体差异。我们观察到女性对病原体的厌恶与她们在男性声音(研究1)和面部和身体(研究2)中对男子气概的偏好之间存在正相关。我们还观察到，女性对病原体的厌恶与她们对目前和理想的浪漫伴侣的男子气概评分呈正相关(研究3)。这些关联中的每一个都与女性的性厌恶和道德厌恶的可能影响无关。总之，这些发现表明，病原体厌恶的个体差异预测了女性在多个领域的男性偏好的个体差异，也可能预测了她们实际配偶选择的个体差异。
Recent studies suggest that pathogen-related factors may contribute to systematic variation in women's preferences for masculinity in men's faces. However, there is very little evidence for similar correlations between pathogen-related factors and women's preferences for masculinity in other domains (e.g., men's voices or bodies). Consequently, we conducted a series of studies to examine whether pathogen disgust (assessed using Tybur et al's Three Domains of Disgust Scale) predicts individual differences in women's preferences for masculine characteristics in men's voices, bodies, and faces. We also tested if pathogen disgust predicts individual differences in measures of women's actual mate choices in the same way. We observed positive correlations between women's pathogen disgust and their preferences for masculinity in men's voices (Study 1) and faces and bodies (Study 2). We also observed positive correlations between women's pathogen disgust and their masculinity ratings of both their current and ideal romantic partners (Study 3). Each of these correlations was independent of the possible effects of women's sexual and moral disgust. Together, these findings suggest that individual differences in pathogen disgust predict individual differences in women's masculinity preferences across multiple domains and may also predict individual differences in their actual mate choices.