The role of facial hair in women's perceptions of men's attractiveness, health, masculinity and parenting abilities
The role of facial hair in women's perceptions of men's attractiveness, health, masculinity and parenting abilities
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DOI：
10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2013.02.003
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发表时间：
2013-05-01
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
Brooks, Robert C.
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作者：
Dixson, Barnaby J.;Brooks, Robert C.
面部毛发强烈地影响人们对男性同性属性的判断。然而，这些判断的性质往往是矛盾的。评估者所看到的中等面部毛发生长水平和女性评估者月经周期的阶段可能会影响过去的研究结果。我们量化了男性和女性对男性照片的吸引力、健康、男子气概和养育能力的判断，这些照片中的男性刮得很干净，有轻微或严重的胡须，还有胡子。我们还测试了月经周期和使用激素避孕药对女性评级的影响。女人们认为留着浓密胡茬的脸最有吸引力，而留着浓密胡茬、留着稀疏胡茬和刮得干干净净的脸同样不那么有吸引力。相比之下，男人们认为络腮胡和浓密的胡茬最有吸引力，紧随其后的是胡子刮得很干净，胡茬很浅的男人最没有吸引力。男人和女人都认为蓄满胡须的人最有养育能力和健康。男性气质评分随着面部毛发的增加而线性增加，这种影响在月经周期的生育期女性中更为明显，尽管吸引力评分并不因生育能力而有所不同。我们的研究结果证实，胡子影响男性社会性属性的判断，并建议中等水平的胡子是最有吸引力的，而全胡子的男人可能被认为是更好的父亲谁可以保护和投资于后代。(C)2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Facial hair strongly influences people's judgments of men's sodo-sexual attributes. However, the nature of these judgments is often contradictory. The levels of intermediate facial hair growth presented to raters and the stage of female raters' menstrual cycles might have influenced past findings. We quantified men's and women's judgments of attractiveness, health, masculinity and parenting abilities for photographs of men who were clean-shaven, lightly or heavily stubbled and fully bearded. We also tested the effect of the menstrual cycle and hormonal contraceptive use on women's ratings. Women judged faces with heavy stubble as most attractive and heavy beards, light stubble and clean-shaven faces as similarly less attractive. In contrast, men rated full beards and heavy stubble as most attractive, followed closely by clean-shaven and light stubble as least attractive. Men and women rated full beards highest for parenting ability and healthiness. Masculinity ratings increased linearly as facial hair increased, and this effect was more pronounced in women in the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle, although attractiveness ratings did not differ according to fertility. Our findings confirm that beardedness affects judgments of male socio-sexual attributes and suggest that an intermediate level of beardedness is most attractive while full-bearded men may be perceived as better fathers who could protect and invest in offspring. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.