Mate value at a glance: Facial attractiveness reveals women's waist-to-hip ratio and men's household income

Ji eun Shin; Eunkook M. Suh; Dayk Jang

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2018.07.014

Mate value at a glance: Facial attractiveness reveals women's waist-to-hip ratio and men's household income

Ji eun Shin, Eunkook M. Suh, Dayk Jang

Department of Psychology

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Can people make valid inferences about the person's mate value by a glance of his/her face? Eighty-seven independent coders rated how attractive neutral facial pictures of 297 (152 males) undergraduate students were, after viewing each image for 3 s. The facial attractiveness rating significantly correlated with important sex-specific mate qualities. In case of female targets, facial attractiveness predicted their body shape (waist-to-hip ratio; WHR), whereas among males, it correlated with their household income. The results remained after controlling for the positive affectivity reflected in the facial image. It appears that sex-specific markers of mate value are implicitly ingrained in attractive facial features.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	128-130
Number of pages	3
Journal	Personality and Individual Differences
Volume	135
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.07.014
Publication status	Published - 2018 Dec 1

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This study was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF- 2017S1A5B5A01025328 ).

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