Are Attractive Men's Faces Masculine or Feminine? The Importance of Controlling Confounds in Face Stimuli
Are Attractive Men's Faces Masculine or Feminine? The Importance of Controlling Confounds in Face Stimuli
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DOI：
10.1037/a0016457
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发表时间：
2010-06-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Little, Anthony C.
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作者：
DeBruine, Lisa M.;Jones, Benedict C.;Little, Anthony C.
女性对男性阳刚气质的偏好变化很大。尽管许多研究人员解释说，这种差异反映了女性在选择男性伴侣的成本和收益之间如何权衡的系统性个体差异，但也有人认为，研究方法上的差异是原因所在。最近的一项研究发现，一般女性倾向于判断被两性二态性操纵的面孔，而一般男性倾向于判断基于感知到的男性气质的面孔。使用原始刺激，我们重复了这些先前的结果，但发现当通过掩蔽消除刺激中的非面部混淆（例如发型）时，两种类型的面孔的总体女性偏好是相同的。我们的结论是，必须注意控制刺激中潜在的混淆，非面部线索对面部男性化偏好的影响值得进一步研究。
Women's preferences for male masculinity are highly variable. Although many researchers explain this variability as reflecting systematic individual differences in how women resolve the tradeoff between the costs and benefits of choosing a masculine partner, others suggest that methodological differences between studies are responsible. A recent study found general femininity preferences for judgments of faces that were manipulated in sexual dimorphism of shape but general masculinity preferences for judgments of faces that were based on perceived masculinity. Using the original stimuli, we replicated these previous results but found equivalent general femininity preferences for both types of faces when nonface confounds in the stimuli (e.g. hairstyle) were eliminated through masking. We conclude that care must be taken to control potential confounds in stimuli and that the influence of nonface cues on preferences for facial masculinity deserves further study.