Evolved mate preferences comprise a central causal process in Darwin's theory of sexual
selection. Their powerful influences have been documented in all sexually reproducing …

The newly revised edition of this groundbreaking textbook provides a comprehensive
overview of the theory, research, and applications of nonverbal communication. Authored by …

Humans often mate with those resembling themselves, a phenomenon described as positive
assortative mating (PAM). The causes of this attract broad interest, but there is little …

Where did we come from? What is our connection with other life forms? What are the
mechanisms of mind that define what it means to be a human being? Evolutionary …

Evolution equips sexually reproducing species with mate choice mechanisms that function
to evaluate the reproductive consequences of mating with different individuals. Indeed …

Inequity can be framed in terms of disadvantage or advantage, with different consequences
for how people understand the inequity. Here we ask, how do scholars conceptualize race …

Adult individuals frequently face difficulties in attracting and keeping mates, which is an
important driver of singlehood. In the current research, we investigated the mating …

Studies of several mammalian species confirm that formant frequencies (vocal tract
resonances) predict height and weight better than does fundamental frequency (F0 …

Humans extract and use information from the face in assessments of physical appearance.
Previous research indicates high agreement about facial attractiveness within and between …

Men's voices contain acoustic cues to body size and hormonal status, which have been
found to affect women's ratings of speaker size, masculinity and attractiveness. However, the …