Age,puberty and attractiveness judgments in adolescents |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Boston VA Healthcare System, Brockton Division and Harvard Medical School, Brockton, MA, United States;2. Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal;1. Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal;2. Neuropsychophysiology Lab, CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal;3. Spaulding Center of Neuromodulation, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital & Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA;4. Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA;5. Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA |
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| Abstract: | Previous work has suggested that judgments of the attractiveness of some facial and vocal features change during adolescence. Here, over 70 Czech adolescents aged 12–14 made forced-choice attractiveness judgments on adolescent faces manipulated in symmetry, averageness and femininity, and on adolescent opposite-sex voices manipulated in fundamental frequency (perceived as pitch), and completed questionnaires on pubertal development. Consistent with typical adult judgments, adolescents selected the symmetric, average and feminine male and female faces as more attractive significantly more often than the asymmetric, non-average and masculine faces respectively. Moreover, preferences for symmetric faces were positively associated with adolescents’ age and stage of pubertal development. Unexpectedly, voice pitch did not significantly influence adolescents’ attractiveness judgments. Collectively, these findings present new evidence using refined methodology that adolescent development is related to variation in attractiveness judgments. |
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