An exploratory, cross-cultural study on perception of putative cyclical changes in facial fertility cues

doi:10.1038/s41598-021-96454-w

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	An exploratory, cross-cultural study on perception of putative cyclical changes in facial fertility cues
	Marcinkowska, Urszula M.1; Jones, Benedict C.2; Cai, Huaijan 3; Contreras-Garduno, Jorge 4; Onyishi, Ike E.5; Orjiakor, Charles T.5; Prasai, Keshav 6; Pazhoohi, Farid 7; Taniguchi, Hirokazu 8; Lee, Anthony J.9
通讯作者	Orjiakor, Charles T.(tochukwu.orjiakor@unn.edu.ng)
摘要	Although many researchers have argued that facial traits evolved as honest cues to women's current fertility (possibly via changes in facial femininity), evidence that women's facial attractiveness is significantly, positively related to probability of conception throughout menstrual cycle is mixed. These mixed results could reflect differences among studies in the methods used to assess facial attractiveness (i.e., forced choice versus rating-scale methods), differences in how fertility was assessed, differences in perceiver characteristics (e.g., their own attractiveness), and facial preferences possibly being moderated by the characteristics of the living environment. Consequently, the current study investigated the putative effect of cyclical changes in fertility on women's facial attractiveness and femininity (1) using forced choice and rating-scale method, (2) conducting both ovulation tests and repeated daily measures of estradiol assessing the conception probability, (3) based on a culturally diverse sample of perceivers, while (4) controlling for inter-individual variation. Although we found some limited evidence that women's faces became more attractive when conception probability increased, these effects differed depending on the methods used to assess both attractiveness and fertility. Moreover, where statistically significant effects were observed, the effect sizes were extremely small. Similarly, there was little robust evidence that perceivers' characteristics reliably predicted preferences for fertility cues. Collectively, these results suggest that mixed results in previous studies examining cyclical fluctuation in women's facial attractiveness are unlikely to reflect inter-cultural differences and are more likely to reflect differences in the methods used to assess facial attractiveness and fertility.
	2021-08-19
语种	英语
DOI	10.1038/s41598-021-96454-w
发表期刊	SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
ISSN	2045-2322
卷号	11 期号:1 页码:9
收录类别	SCI
资助项目	Polish-U.S Fulbright Commission[PL/2018/42/SR] ; Polish National Science Centre[2014/12/S/NZ8/00722]
出版者	NATURE PORTFOLIO
WOS关键词	WOMENS ATTRACTIVENESS ; SEXUAL-DIMORPHISM ; MATE PREFERENCES ; FEMALE FACES ; APPEARANCE ; CONCEPTION ; PREDICTS ; MEN ; AGE
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000686768700063
资助机构	Polish-U.S Fulbright Commission ; Polish National Science Centre
引用统计	被引频次：4[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/40154
专题	社会与工程心理学研究室
通讯作者	Orjiakor, Charles T.
作者单位	1.Jagiellonian Univ Med Coll, Dept Hlth Sci, Krakow, Poland 2.Univ Strathclyde, Sch Psychol, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Beijing, Peoples R China 4.Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, ENES Campus Morelia, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico 5.Univ Nigeria, Dept Psychol, Nsukka, Nigeria 6.Uniglobe HSS Coll, Kathmandu, Nepal 7.Univ British Columbia, Dept Psychol, Vancouver, BC, Canada 8.Shimonoseki City Univ, Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan 9.Univ Stirling, Div Psychol, Stirling, Scotland
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Marcinkowska, Urszula M.,Jones, Benedict C.,Cai, Huaijan,et al. An exploratory, cross-cultural study on perception of putative cyclical changes in facial fertility cues[J]. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,2021,11(1):9.
APA	Marcinkowska, Urszula M..,Jones, Benedict C..,Cai, Huaijan.,Contreras-Garduno, Jorge.,Onyishi, Ike E..,...&Lee, Anthony J..(2021).An exploratory, cross-cultural study on perception of putative cyclical changes in facial fertility cues.SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,11(1),9.
MLA	Marcinkowska, Urszula M.,et al."An exploratory, cross-cultural study on perception of putative cyclical changes in facial fertility cues".SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 11.1(2021):9.

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