Preferences for sexual dimorphism on attractiveness levels: An eye-tracking study |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition, University of Goettingen, Gosslerstr. 14, 37073 Goettingen, Germany;2. School of Science and Health, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, New South Wales 2751, Australia;3. Department of Anthropology, Center for Brain, Behavior, and Cognition, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA;4. Department of Behavioral Ecology, Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition, University of Goettingen, Kellnerweg 6, 37077 Goettingen, Germany;1. Department of Environmental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Grzegorzecka st. 20, 31-531 Krakow, Poland;2. Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie, Université de Toulouse, CNRS-UMR 5263, Toulouse 31000, France;3. Institut Universitaire de France, 103 boulevard Saint-Michel, 75005 Paris, France;4. Department of Psychology, University of Bath, 10 West, Bath, United Kingdom;1. School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati;2. College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University;3. Center for Social and Humanities Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia;1. School of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK;2. Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada;3. School of Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK |
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| Abstract: | Previous studies on sexual dimorphism showed feminine preferences in female faces and mixed findings in male faces by choosing which is more attractive in a pair of a masculine face and a feminine face. However, very little is known about how people make fine-grained visual assessments of such images and the attractiveness levels of faces are not received much attention. Recently a large number of androgynous stars appear in the media, which triggers a hot phenomenon of imitating them. Here we examine the influence of androgynous stars on people’s facial preferences for sexual dimorphism in male and female faces on different attractiveness levels using eye-tracking techniques. In male faces we found both male and female participants preferred masculine faces to androgynous faces in high attractiveness, but mixed results in low attractiveness. In female faces we found both male and female participants preferred feminine faces to androgynous faces in high attractiveness, but no preferences in low attractiveness. Results suggest that attractiveness levels of faces might be a factor causing inconsistency in sexual dimorphism preference for male faces and that androgynous faces are not preferred, which reveals that androgynous phenomenon might not be caused by facial attractiveness. |
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| Keywords: | Sexual dimorphism Masculine Feminine Androgynous Eye-tracking |
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