Facial attractiveness: evolutionary based research

AC Little, BC Jones… - … Transactions of the …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Face preferences affect a diverse range of critical social outcomes, from mate choices and
decisions about platonic relationships to hiring decisions and decisions about social …

Sexual selection on human faces and voices

DA Puts, BC Jones, LM DeBruine - Journal of sex research, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Humans are highly sexually dimorphic primates, and some of the most conspicuous human
sex differences occur in the face and voice. Consequently, this article utilizes research …

The enemy between us: The psychological and social costs of inequality

RG Wilkinson, KE Pickett - European Journal of Social …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
There is now substantial evidence that larger income differences in a society increase the
prevalence of most of the health and social problems that tend to occur more frequently …

Parasite-stress promotes in-group assortative sociality: The cases of strong family ties and heightened religiosity

CL Fincher, R Thornhill - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2012 - cambridge.org
Throughout the world people differ in the magnitude with which they value strong family ties
or heightened religiosity. We propose that this cross-cultural variation is a result of a …

Attitudes to income inequality: Experimental and survey evidence

AE Clark, C d'Ambrosio - Handbook of income distribution, 2015 - Elsevier
We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income
inequality. We interpret the latter as any disparity in incomes between individuals. We …

Human preferences for sexually dimorphic faces may be evolutionarily novel

IM Scott, AP Clark, SC Josephson… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
A large literature proposes that preferences for exaggerated sex typicality in human faces
(masculinity/femininity) reflect a long evolutionary history of sexual and social selection. This …

Exposure to visual cues of pathogen contagion changes preferences for masculinity and symmetry in opposite-sex faces

AC Little, LM DeBruine… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Evolutionary approaches to human attractiveness have documented several traits that are
proposed to be attractive across individuals and cultures, although both cross-individual and …

Evidence for the stress-linked immunocompetence handicap hypothesis in humans

MJ Rantala, FR Moore, I Skrinda, T Krama… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Secondary sexual traits that develop under the action of testosterone, such as masculine
human male facial characteristics, have been proposed to signal the strength of the immune …

Do men's faces really signal heritable immunocompetence?

IML Scott, AP Clark, LG Boothroyd… - Behavioral …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
In the literature on human mate choice, masculine facial morphology is often proposed to be
an intersexual signal of heritable immunocompetence, and hence an important component …

The role of facial hair in women's perceptions of men's attractiveness, health, masculinity and parenting abilities

BJ Dixson, RC Brooks - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2013 - Elsevier
Facial hair strongly influences people's judgments of men's socio-sexual attributes.
However, the nature of these judgments is often contradictory. The levels of intermediate …