No compelling evidence that preferences for facial masculinity track changes in women’s hormonal status

Jones, Benedict C.; Hahn, Amanda C.; Fisher, Claire I.; Wang, Hongyi; Kandrik, Michal; Han, Chengyang; Fasolt, Vanessa; Morrison, Danielle; Lee, Anthony J.; Holzleitner, Iris J.; O�Shea, Kieran J.; Roberts, S. Craig; Little, Anthony C.; DeBruine, Lisa M.

doi:10.1177/0956797618760197

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Facial masculinity is only weakly correlated with handgrip strength in young adult women (2018)
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Objectives: Ancestrally, strength is likely to have played a critical role in determining the ability to obtain and retain resources and the allocation of social status among humans. Responses to facial cues of strength are therefore thought to play... Read More about Facial masculinity is only weakly correlated with handgrip strength in young adult women.

No evidence that facial attractiveness, femininity, averageness, or coloration are cues to susceptibility to infectious illnesses in a university sample of young adult women (2018)
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Previous reports that women with attractive faces are healthier have been widely cited as evidence that sexual selection has shaped human mate preferences. However, evidence for correlations between women's physical health and facial attractiveness i... Read More about No evidence that facial attractiveness, femininity, averageness, or coloration are cues to susceptibility to infectious illnesses in a university sample of young adult women.

No clear evidence for correlations between handgrip strength and sexually dimorphic acoustic properties of voices (2018)
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Objectives: Recent research on the signal value of masculine physical characteristics in men has focused on the possibility that such characteristics are valid cues of physical strength. However, evidence that sexually dimorphic vocal characteristics... Read More about No clear evidence for correlations between handgrip strength and sexually dimorphic acoustic properties of voices.

No compelling evidence that more physically attractive young adult women have higher estradiol or progesterone (2018)
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Putative associations between sex hormones and attractive physical characteristics in women are central to many theories of human physical attractiveness and mate choice. Although such theories have become very influential, evidence that physically a... Read More about No compelling evidence that more physically attractive young adult women have higher estradiol or progesterone.

No evidence that facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) is associated with women's sexual desire (2018)
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Facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) has been linked to many different behavioral tendencies. However, not all of these correlations have replicated well across samples. Arnocky et al. (in press, Archives of Sexual Behavior) recently reported that sex... Read More about No evidence that facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) is associated with women's sexual desire.

No compelling evidence that preferences for facial masculinity track changes in women’s hormonal status (2018)
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Although widely cited as strong evidence that sexual selection has shaped human facial-attractiveness judgments, findings suggesting that women’s preferences for masculine characteristics in men’s faces are related to women’s hormonal status are equi... Read More about No compelling evidence that preferences for facial masculinity track changes in women’s hormonal status.