WOMEN PREFER MORE MASCULINE FACES

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Psychology Tidbits, joined doctor Carlos as he explores
the many areas of the human mind.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
A woman's preference for facial masculinity in a man is
influenced by the degree of investment she expects from her
future child's grandfather gets a little confusing. This is a
study published and Evolutionary Psychological Psychology Science. The research is
behind the study suggest that this is because men with
masculine faces are perceived as less likely to invest in
their children in a higher anticipated investment from the child's

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grandfather offsets the risk of selecting a masculine partner a
wealthy psychology research is suggested that people make certain inferences
about men based on their masculinity. For example, men with
more masculine facial features are perceived as more dominant, aggressive, unfaithful,
and less invested. If men with masculine faces are perceived
as less invested in their children and follows that women

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will be particularly turned away from masculine looking men. However,
it's not the case all the time. The study was
done and they proposed that if a woman anticipates her
own parents to be highly invested in the future of
a children, this offsets the cost of selecting a partner
with masculine features. Go figure. The finance suggests over all,

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the women preferred the more masculine faces over more feminine faces.
For each pair, the masculine face had an eighty four
percent chance of being selected as most attractive. The researcher's
next tested the extent that each predictor would impact the
probability of choosing a masculine face. It was revealed that
the expected financial investments from the grandfather was positively related
to women's preference for a masculine face. But the interesting

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part too, was that they chose the masculine face eighty
four percent of the time.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Oh, by the way, what was a how would you
describe a masculine face?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
They did?

Speaker 2 (01:53):
In the study, The face was made more masculine by
increasing the size of the jaw so they showed a
photoshoped image, and making facial stubble more visible.