Reading men's faces: Women's mate attractiveness judgments track men's testosterone and interest in infants

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1598, 2006, Pages 2169-2175

  Roney, James R ^a   Hanson, Katherine N ^a   Durante, Kristina M ^b   Maestripieri, Dario ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Face perception; Interest in infants; Mate attractiveness; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

CHILD; MALE BEHAVIOR; MASCULINIZATION; MATE ATTRACTION; PARENTAL CARE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASCULINITY; MATE CHOICE; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PERCEPTION; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33748278899     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3569     Document Type: Article

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