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Evidence from Meta-Analyses of the Facial Width-to-Height Ratio as an Evolved Cue of Threat

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Findings provide some support for the hypothesis that the FWHR is part of an evolved cueing system of intra-sexual threat and dominance in men.
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Beards augment perceptions of men's age, social status, and aggressiveness, but not attractiveness

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It is shown that women from two very different ethnic groups, Europeans from New Zealand and Polynesians from Samoa, do not rate bearded male faces as more attractive than clean-shaven faces, consistent with the hypothesis that the human beard evolved primarily via intrasexual selection between males and as part of complex facial communication signaling status and aggressiveness.
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Eye-Tracking of Men’s Preferences for Waist-to-Hip Ratio and Breast Size of Women

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Eye-tracking techniques are used to provide quantitative data on eye movements that occur during male judgments of the attractiveness of female images, and indicate that assessments of the female hourglass figure probably occur very rapidly.
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Studies of human physique and sexual attractiveness: Sexual preferences of men and women in China

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Results support the view that sexual selection has influenced the evolution of human physique and sexual attractiveness in men and women.
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The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology Through a Distributed Collaborative Network

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The Psychological Science Accelerator is a distributed network of laboratories designed to enable and support crowdsourced research projects that will advance understanding of mental processes and behaviors by enabling rigorous research and systematic examination of its generalizability.
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Cross-cultural consensus for waist–hip ratio and women's attractiveness

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Human Physique and Sexual Attractiveness: Sexual Preferences of Men and Women in Bakossiland, Cameroon

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These results are the first of their kind reported for a Central African community and provide a useful cross-cultural perspective to published accounts on sexual selection, human morphology and attractiveness in the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere.
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Eye Tracking of Men’s Preferences for Female Breast Size and Areola Pigmentation

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It is concluded that areolar pigmentation, as well as breast size, plays a significant role in men’s judgments of female attractiveness, and fine-grained measures of men's visual attention to these morphological traits do not correlate, in a simplistic way, with their attractiveness judgments.
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Human Physique and Sexual Attractiveness in Men and Women: A New Zealand–U.S. Comparative Study

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Results indicate very similar preferences for sexually dimorphic physical traits among men and women of European extraction, living in two culturally and geographically different environments.
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Men’s Preferences for Women’s Breast Morphology in New Zealand, Samoa, and Papua New Guinea

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It is suggested that areolar pigmentation indicative of sexual maturity is preferred by men rather than lighter pigmentation, which may signal that a woman is in the early years of reproductive maturity, as well as supporting the hypothesis that men from subsistence living cultures have a greater preference for morphological cues indicative of caloric reserves.
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