Women's estradiol predicts preference for facial cues of men's testosterone
Women's estradiol predicts preference for facial cues of men's testosterone
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DOI：
10.1016/j.yhbeh.2007.09.008
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发表时间：
2008-01-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Simmons, Zachary L.
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作者：
Roney, James R.;Simmons, Zachary L.
越来越多的研究表明，与月经周期其他时间相比，在排卵期附近进行测试时，女性对更多男性特征表现出更强的吸引力。尽管这些效应被解释为在最有可能受孕的周期期间对睾酮水平升高的标记物的偏好增加，但之前没有研究直接证明女性在周期的不同时间对睾酮水平较高的男性表现出更强的吸引力。此外，很少有研究探讨哪些激素或其他生理机制可以调节女性吸引力判断的时间变化。在这项研究中，我们证明雌二醇浓度较高的女性对睾酮浓度较高的男性的面孔表现出更强的偏好，并且女性的睾酮偏好和雌二醇曲线在周期的几天内相互追踪。这些发现首次在人类中直接证明，一种性别的激素浓度与对异性激素状态线索的吸引力有关。研究结果支持雌二醇在根据当前生育能力指标来校准女性交配心理方面的功能性作用，类似于非人类物种中记录的类似过程。雌二醇和睾酮偏好之间的强相关性，特别是在黄体期，进一步表明，女性的择偶偏好除了根据个体周期内的排卵时间进行校准之外，还可能跟踪不同周期之间的生育能力。 (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. 保留所有权利。
A growing body of research has shown that women express stronger attraction to more masculine traits when they are tested near ovulation than when tested during other times in the menstrual cycle. Although these effects have been interpreted as increased preferences for markers of elevated testosterone during times in the cycle when conception is most likely, no previous studies have directly demonstrated that women express stronger attraction to higher testosterone men at different times in the cycle. In addition, little research has addressed which hormonal or other physiological mechanisms may regulate temporal shifts in women's attractiveness judgments. In this research, we demonstrate that women with higher estradiol concentrations exhibit stronger preferences for the faces of men with higher testosterone concentrations, and that women's testosterone preference and estradiol curves track one another across days of the cycle. The findings are the first direct demonstration in humans that hormone concentrations in one sex are associated with attraction to cues of hormonal status in the opposite sex. The results support a functional role for estradiol in calibrating women's mating psychology to indices of their current fertility, analogous to similar processes that have been documented in nonhuman species. A strong correlation between estradiol and testosterone preference specifically during the luteal phase further suggests that women's mate preferences may track their fertility between different cycles in addition to being calibrated to the timing of ovulation within individual cycles. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.