Dr. Iris Holzleitner's Outputs (35)

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.

Cultural differences in preferences for facial coloration (2017)
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Effects of facial coloration on facial attractiveness judgments are hypothesized to be “universal” (i.e., similar across cultures). Cross-cultural similarity in facial color preferences is a critical piece of evidence for this hypothesis. However, on... Read More about Cultural differences in preferences for facial coloration.

Women’s preferences for men’s facial masculinity: Trade-off accounts revisited (2017)
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Studies on mate preferences have demonstrated that women’s perception of male attractiveness is sensitive to men’s facial masculinity, and that women’s preferences for facial masculinity are subject to individual differences, such as own condition. T... Read More about Women’s preferences for men’s facial masculinity: Trade-off accounts revisited.

Interrelationships among men’s threat potential, facial dominance, and vocal dominance (2017)
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The benefits of minimizing the costs of engaging in violent conflict are thought to have shaped adaptations for the rapid assessment of others’ capacity to inflict physical harm. Although studies have suggested that men’s faces and voices both contai... Read More about Interrelationships among men’s threat potential, facial dominance, and vocal dominance.

Perception of health from facial cues (2016)
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Impressions of health are integral to social interactions, yet poorly understood. A review of the literature reveals multiple facial characteristics that potentially act as cues to health judgements. The cues vary in their stability across time: stru... Read More about Perception of health from facial cues.

Perception of strength from 3D faces is linked to facial cues of physique (2015)
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Formidability is an important cue to male intrasexual competitiveness. While previous studies suggest that strength can be accurately perceived from faces, little is known regarding the specific morphological cues that are used to form judgments of s... Read More about Perception of strength from 3D faces is linked to facial cues of physique.

Men’s facial masculinity: When (body) size matters (2014)
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Recent studies suggest that judgments of facial masculinity reflect more than sexually dimorphic shape. Here, we investigated whether the perception of masculinity is influenced by facial cues to body height and weight. We used the average difference... Read More about Men’s facial masculinity: When (body) size matters.

Wie viel Gewicht liegt im Gesicht?: Wahrnehmungsschwellen für körpergewichtsassoziierte Veränderungen der dreidimensionalen Gesichtsform (2013)
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Facial shape is a reliable correlate of body mass index (BMI) and facial correlates of weight predict both actual and perceived health. Previous studies have found that facial shape cues to weight are strongly related to attractiveness independent of... Read More about Wie viel Gewicht liegt im Gesicht?: Wahrnehmungsschwellen für körpergewichtsassoziierte Veränderungen der dreidimensionalen Gesichtsform.

The myth of hidden ovulation: Shape and texture changes in the face during the menstrual cycle (2012)
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In recent years, evidence has been gathered indicating increased attractiveness of female faces at the point of ovulation. In this paper, we asked what changes in facial appearance occur during menstrual cycle that lead to this shift in attractivenes... Read More about The myth of hidden ovulation: Shape and texture changes in the face during the menstrual cycle.

Cues to fertility: Perceived attractiveness and facial shape predict reproductive success (2012)
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Attractive facial features in women are assumed to signal fertility, but whether facial attractiveness predicts reproductive success in women is still a matter of debate. We investigated the association between facial attractiveness at young adulthoo... Read More about Cues to fertility: Perceived attractiveness and facial shape predict reproductive success.

Apparent height and body mass index influence perceived leadership ability in three-dimensional faces (2012)
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Facial appearance has a well-documented effect on perceived leadership ability. Face judgments of leadership ability predict political election outcomes across the world, and similar judgments of business CEOs predict company profits. Body height is... Read More about Apparent height and body mass index influence perceived leadership ability in three-dimensional faces.