Trade-offs between markers of absolute and relative quality in human facial preferences

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1133-1137

  Saxton, Tamsin K ^a,b   Little, Anthony C ^c   Rowland, Hannah M ^b   Gao, Ting ^b   Roberts, S Craig ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attractiveness; Face preference; Facial masculinity; Genetic compatibility; Mate choice; Self similarity

Indexed keywords

HUMAN BEHAVIOR; INCOMPATIBILITY; MATE CHOICE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 70349473030     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp107     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Bailenson JN, Garland P, Iyengar S, Yee N. 2006. Transformed facial similarity as a political cue: a preliminary investigation. Polit Psychol. 27:373-385.
2. Bateson P. 1978. Sexual imprinting and optimal outbreeding. Nature. 273:659-660.
3. Bateson P. 1980. Optimal outbreeding and the development of sexual preferences in Japanese quail. Z Tierpsychol. 53:231-244.
4. Bateson P. 1982. Preferences for cousins in Japanese quail. Nature. 295:236-237.
5. Benson PJ, Perrett DI. 1991. Synthesizing continuous-tone caricatures. Image Vis Comput. 9:123-129.
6. Benson PJ, Perrett DI. 1993. Extracting prototypical facial images from exemplars. Perception. 22:257-262.
7. Bereczkei T, Gyuris P, Koves P, Bernath L. 2002. Homogamy, genetic similarity, and imprinting; parental influence on mate choice preferences. Pers Individ Differ. 33:677-690.
8. Bereczkei T, Gyuris P, Weisfeld GE. 2004. Sexual imprinting in human mate choice. Proc Biol Sci. 271:1129-1134.
9. Colegrave N, Kotiaho JS, Tomkins JL. 2002. Mate choice or polyandry: reconciling genetic compatibility and good genes sexual selection. Evol Ecol Res. 4:911-917.
10. DeBruine LM. 2002. Facial resemblance enhances trust. Proc Biol Sci. 269:1307-1312.
11. DeBruine LM. 2004. Facial resemblance increases the attractiveness of same-sex facesmore thanother-sex faces. Proc Biol Sci. 271:2085-2090.
12. DeBruine LM. 2005. Trustworthy but not lust-worthy: context-specific effects of facial resemblance. Proc Biol Sci. 272:919-922.
13. DeBruine LM, Jones BC, Little AC, Perrett DI. 2008. Social perception of facial resemblance in humans. Arch Sex Behav. 37:64-77.
14. DeBruine LM, Jones BC, Perrett DI. 2005. Women's attractiveness judgments of self-resembling faces change across the menstrual cycle. Horm Behav. 47:379
15. Epstein E, Guttman R. 1982. Mate selection in man: evidence, theory, and outcome. Soc Biol. 31:243-276.
16. Folstad I, Karter AJ. 1992. Parasites, bright males, and the immunocompetence handicap. Am Nat. 139:603-622.
17. Gangestad SW, Simpson JA. 2000. The evolution of human mating: trade-offs and strategic pluralism. Behav Brain Sci. 23:573-644.
18. Griffiths RW, Kunz PR. 1973. Assortative mating: a study of physiognomic homogamy. Soc Biol. 20:448-453.
19. Hamilton WD, Zuk M. 1982. Heritable true fitness and bright birds: a role for parasites? Science. 218:384-387.
20. Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Perrett DI, Little AC, Feinberg DR, Law Smith MJ. 2008. Effects of menstrual cycle phase on face preferences. Arch Sex Behav. 37:78-84.
21. Krupp DB, Debruine LM, Barclay P. 2008. A cue of kinship promotes cooperation for the public good. Evol Hum Behav. 29:49-55.
22. Little AC, Burt DM, Penton-Voak IS, Perrett DI. 2001. Self-perceived attractiveness influences human female preferences for sexual dimorphism and symmetry in male faces. Proc Biol Sci. 268:39-44.
23. Little AC, Burt DM, Perrett DI. 2006. Assortative mating for perceived facial personality traits. Pers Individ Differ. 40:973-984.
24. Little AC, Hancock PJ. 2002. The role of masculinity and distinctiveness on the perception of attractiveness in human male faces. Br J Psychol. 93:451-464.
25. Little AC, Jones BC, Penton-Voak IS, Burt DM, Perrett DI. 2002. Partnership status and the temporal context of relationships influence human female preferences for sexual dimorphism in male face shape. Proc Biol Sci. 269:1095-1100.
26. Little AC, Jones BC, Waitt C, Tiddeman BP, Feinberg DR, Perrett DI, Apicella CL, Marlowe FW. 2008. Symmetry is related to sexual dimorphism in faces: data across culture and species. PLoS ONE. 3:e2106
27. Little AC, Penton-Voak IS, Burt DM, Perrett DI. 2003. Investigating an imprinting-like phenomenon in humans: partners and opposite-sex parents have similar hair and eye colour. Evol Hum Behav. 24:43.
28. Maynard Smith J. 1985. Mini review: sexual selection, handicaps and true fitness. J Theor Biol. 115:1-8.
29. Mays HLJ, Hill GE. 2004. Choosing mates: good genes versus genes that are a good fit. Trends Ecol Evol. 19:554-559.
30. Neff BD, Pitcher TE. 2005. Genetic quality and sexual selection: an integrated framework for good genes and compatible genes. Mol Ecol. 14:19-38.
31. Penton-Voak IS, Chen JY. 2004. High salivary testosterone is linked to masculine male facial appearance in humans. Evol Hum Behav. 25:229-241.
32. Penton-Voak IS, Little AC, Jones BC, Burt DM, Tiddeman BP, Perrett DI. 2003. Female condition influences preferences for sexual dimorphism in faces of male humans (Homo sapiens). J Comp Psychol. 117:264-271.
33. Penton-Voak IS, Perrett DI, Castles DL, Kobayashi T, Burt DM, Murray LK, Minamisawa R. 1999. Menstrual cycle alters face preference. Nature. 399:741-742.
34. Penton-Voak IS, Perrett DI, Peirce JW. 1999. Computer graphic studies of the role of facial similarity in judgements of attractiveness. Curr Psychol Dev Learn Pers. 18:104-117.
35. Perrett DI, Lee KJ, Penton-Voak IS, Rowland D, Yoshikawa S, Burt DM, Henzi SP, Castles DL, Akamatsu S. 1998. Effects of sexual dimorphism on facial attractiveness. Nature. 394:884-887.
36. Potts WK, Wakeland EK. 1993. Evolution of MHC genetic diversity-a tale of incest, pestilence and sexual preference. Trends Genet. 9:408-412.
37. Read AF, Harvey PH. 1991. Genetic relatedness and the evolution of animal mating patterns. In: Mascie-Taylor CG, Boyce AJ, editors. Human mating patterns. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 115-131.
38. Rhodes G, Chan J, Zebrowitz LA, Simmons LW. 2003. Does sexual dimorphism in human faces signal health? Biol Lett. 270: S93-S95.
39. Rhodes G, Yoshikawa S, Palermo R, Simmons LW, Peters M, Lee K, Halberstadt J, Crawford JR. 2007. Perceived health contributes to the attractiveness of facial symmetry, averageness, and sexual dimorphism. Perception. 36:1244-1252.
40. Roberts SC, Gosling LM. 2003. Genetic similarity and quality interact in mate choice decisions by female mice. Nat Genet. 35:103-106.
41. Roberts SC, Little AC. 2008. Good genes, complementary genes and human mate choice. Genetica. 132:309-321.
42. Roberts SC, Little AC, Gosling LM, Jones BC, Perrett DI, Carter V, Petrie M. 2005. MHC-assortative facial preferences in humans. Biol Lett. 1:400-403.
43. Rushton PJ. 1988. Genetic similarity, mate choice, and fecundity in humans. Ethol Sociobiol. 9:329-333.
44. Scott I, Swami V, Josephson SC, Penton-Voak IS. 2008. Contextdependent preferences for facial dimorphism in a rural Malaysian population. Evol Hum Behav. 29:289-296.
45. Thiessen D. 1999. Social influences on assortative mating. In: Corballis MC, Lea SG, editors. The descent of mind: psychological perspectives on hominid evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 311-323.
46. Thiessen D, Gregg B. 1980. Human assortative mating and genetic equilibrium: an evolutionary perspective. Ethol Sociobiol. 1:111-140.
47. Thornhill R, Gangestad SW. 2006. Facial sexual dimorphism, developmental stability, and susceptibility to disease in men and women. Evol Hum Behav. 27:131-144.
48. Tiddeman B, Burt DM, Perrett D. 2001. Computer graphics in facial perception research. IEEE Comput Graph. 21:42-50.
49. Zahavi A. 1975. Mate selection-a selection for a handicap. J Theor Biol. 53:205-214.
50. Zahavi A. 1977. The cost of honesty. J Theor Biol. 67:603-605.
51. Zajonc RB, Adelmann PK, Murphy ST, Niedenthal PM. 1987. Convergence in the physical appearance of spouses. Motiv Emot. 11:335-346.