Lisa Debruine
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 911146 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lisa Debruine |
| NOMBRES | Lisa |
| APELLIDO | Debruine |
| FIRMA | DEBRUINE L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7523-5539 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 71 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 190 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The Role of Attractiveness in Gendered Sexual Response Patterns
Previously documented sexual response patterns of gender-specificity among gynephilic men and gender-nonspecificity among gynephilic women could be explained by women responding more strongly to non-gendered aspects of sexual stimuli. Cues of attractiveness are known determinants of sexual decision-making, yet have not been directly tested as determinants of sexual response. The current study investigated the role of attractiveness cues in explai…
Big team' science challenges us to reconsider authorship
Re-evaluating the relationship between pathogen avoidance and preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism
Over the past decade, a small literature has tested how trait-level pathogen-avoidance motives (e.g., disgust sensitivity) and exposure to pathogen cues relate to preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism. Results have largely been interpreted as suggesting that the behavioral immune system influences preferences for these features in potential mates. However, findings are limited by small sample sizes among studies reporting supporti…
Age Effects on Women’s and Men’s Dyadic and Solitary Sexual Desire
While most studies on sexuality in later life report that sexual desire declines with age, little is known about the exact nature of age effects on sexual desire. Using self-reported dyadic sexual desire relating to a partner, dyadic sexual desire relating to an attractive person, and solitary sexual desire from a large ( N > 8000) and age diverse (14.6–80.2 years) online sample, the current study had three goals: First, we investigated relations…
No increased inbreeding avoidance during the ovulatory phase of the menstrual cycle
Mate preferences and mating-related behaviors are hypothesized to change over the menstrual cycle to increase reproductive fitness. Recent large-scale studies suggest that previously reported hormone-linked behavioral changes are not robust. The proposal that women's preference for associating with male kin is down-regulated during the ovulatory (high-fertility) phase of the menstrual cycle to reduce inbreeding has not been tested in large sample…
Do voices carry valid information about a speaker’s personality
To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply
Over the past 10 years, Oosterhof and Todorov’s valence–dominance model has emerged as the most prominent account of how people evaluate faces on social dimensions. In this model, two dimensions (valence and dominance) underpin social judgements of faces. Because this model has primarily been developed and tested in Western regions, it is unclear whether these findings apply to other regions. We addressed this question by replicating Oosterhof an…
Do more attractive women show stronger preferences for male facial masculinity
Use caution when applying behavioural science to policy
No evidence that facial attractiveness, femininity, averageness, or coloration are cues to susceptibility to infectious illnesses in a university sample of young adult women
Assessing the evidentiary value of secondary data analyses
Investigating the association between mating-relevant self-concepts and mate preferences through a data-driven analysis of online personal descriptions
Temporary Removal
Facial masculinity is only weakly correlated with handgrip strength in young adult women
OBJECTIVES: Ancestrally, strength is likely to have played a critical role in determining the ability to obtain and retain resources and the allocation of social status among humans. Responses to facial cues of strength are therefore thought to play an important role in human social interaction. Although many researchers have proposed that sexually dimorphic facial morphology is reliably correlated with physical strength, evidence for this hypoth…
Hormonal correlates of pathogen disgust
Cultural differences in preferences for facial coloration
Effects of facial coloration on facial attractiveness judgments are hypothesized to be "universal" (i.e., similar across cultures). Cross-cultural similarity in facial color preferences is a critical piece of evidence for this hypothesis. However, only two studies have directly compared facial color preferences in two cultures. Both of those studies reported that White UK and Black African participants showed similar preferences for facial colora…
Reprint of Hormonal correlates of pathogen disgust
Phenotypic Resemblance and Kinship Detection
The Psychological Science Accelerator
Concerns about the veracity of psychological research have been growing. Many findings in psychological science are based on studies with insufficient statistical power and nonrepresentative samples, or may otherwise be limited to specific, ungeneralizable settings or populations. Crowdsourced research, a type of large-scale collaboration in which one or more research projects are conducted across multiple lab sites, offers a pragmatic solution t…
No clear evidence for correlations between handgrip strength and sexually dimorphic acoustic properties of voices
OBJECTIVES: Recent research on the signal value of masculine physical characteristics in men has focused on the possibility that such characteristics are valid cues of physical strength. However, evidence that sexually dimorphic vocal characteristics are correlated with physical strength is equivocal. Consequently, we undertook a further test for possible relationships between physical strength and masculine vocal characteristics. METHODS: We tes…
Justify your alpha
Sex-Specificity in the Reward Value of Facial Attractiveness
Scarcity of female mates predicts regional variation in men's and women's sociosexual orientation across US states
Previous studies have linked regional variation in willingness to engage in uncommitted sexual relationships (i.e., sociosexual orientation) to many different socio-ecological measures, such as adult sex ratio, life expectancy, and gross domestic product. However, these studies share a number of potentially serious limitations, including reliance on a single dataset of responses aggregated by country and a failure to properly consider intercorrel…
Mate choice, mate preference, and biological markets
Although much of the research on human mate preference assumes that mate preference and partner choice will be related to some extent, evidence for correlations between mate preference and mate choice is mixed. Inspired by biological market theories of mate choice, which propose that individuals with greater market value will be better placed to translate their preference into choice, we investigated whether participants' own attractiveness modul…
Women's facial attractiveness is related to their body mass index but not their salivary cortisol
Our results suggest that the types of health information reflected in women's faces include qualities that are indexed by BMI but do not necessarily include qualities that are indexed by cortisol. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 28:352-355, 2016. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc
Effects of Menstrual Cycle Phase on Face Preferences
Use caution when applying behavioural science to policy
Justify your alpha
Sexual Selection on Human Faces and Voices
Humans are highly sexually dimorphic primates, and some of the most conspicuous human sex differences occur in the face and voice. Consequently, this article utilizes research findings on human faces and voices to illustrate how human sex differences may have arisen by sexual selection (i.e., the type of natural selection favoring traits that increase mating opportunities). Evidence suggesting that sexual selection shaped women's faces and voices…
Sex-Dimorphic Face Shape Preference in Heterosexual and Homosexual Men and Women
Hormonal contraceptive use and perceptions of trust modulate the effect of relationship context on women's preferences for sexual dimorphism in male face shape
Women demonstrate stronger preferences for femininity when assessing men's attractiveness for long-term rather than short-term relationships. One explanation of this effect is that the pro-social traits associated with femininity are particularly important for long-term relationships. This explanation has recently been challenged, however, following null findings for effects of pro-social attributions on women's preferences for feminine long-term…
Social Perception of Facial Resemblance in Humans
Perceived facial adiposity conveys information about women's health
Although several prominent theories of human facial attractiveness propose that some facial characteristics convey information about people's health, empirical evidence for this claim is somewhat mixed. While most previous research into this issue has focused on facial characteristics such as symmetry, averageness, and sexual dimorphism, a recent study reported that ratings of facial adiposity (i.e., perceptions of fatness in the face) were posit…
Reported Sexual Desire Predicts Men’s Preferences for Sexually Dimorphic Cues in Women’s Faces
The valence of experiences with faces influences generalized preferences
Although it is well-established that generalized face preferences influence a wide range of social outcomes, little is known about the proximate mechanisms through which such preferences develop. In two experiments we show that preferences for composites of faces that had been seen paired with an aversive auditory stimulus were significantly weaker than preferences for composites of faces that had been seen paired with a relatively neutral audito…
Sociosexuality Predicts Women’s Preferences for Symmetry in Men’s Faces
Body Odor Quality Predicts Behavioral Attractiveness in Humans
Perceived vulnerability to disease is positively related to the strength of preferences for apparent health in faces
People who are particularly vulnerable to disease may reduce their likelihood of contracting illnesses during social interactions by having particularly strong aversions to individuals who appear ill. Consistent with this proposal, here we show that men and women who perceive themselves to be particularly vulnerable to disease have stronger preferences for apparent health in dynamic faces than individuals who perceive themselves to be relatively …
To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply
Over the past 10 years, Oosterhof and Todorov’s valence–dominance model has emerged as the most prominent account of how people evaluate faces on social dimensions. In this model, two dimensions (valence and dominance) underpin social judgements of faces. Because this model has primarily been developed and tested in Western regions, it is unclear whether these findings apply to other regions. We addressed this question by replicating Oosterhof an…
A longitudinal study of adolescents’ judgments of the attractiveness of facial symmetry, averageness and sexual dimorphism
Adolescents have been found to differ by age in their attraction to facial symmetry, averageness, and sexual dimorphism. However, it has not been demonstrated that attraction to these facial characters changes over time as a consequence of age-linked development. We aimed to extend previous cross-sectional findings by examining whether facial attractiveness judgments change over time during adolescence as a consequence of increasing age, in a wit…
Experimental evidence that women speak in a higher voice pitch to men they find attractive
Although humans can raise and lower their voice pitch, it is not known whether such alterations can function to increase the likelihood of attracting preferred mates. Because men find higher-pitched women's voices more attractive, the voice pitch with which women speak to men may depend on the strength of their attraction to those men. Here, we measured voice pitch when women left voicemail messages for men with masculinized and feminized faces. …
Observer age and the social transmission of attractiveness in humans
Being paired with an attractive partner increases perceptual judgements of attractiveness in humans. We tested experimentally for prestige bias, whereby individuals follow the choices of prestigious others. Women rated the attractiveness of photographs of target males which were paired with either popular or less popular model female partners. We found that pairing a photo of a man with a woman presented as his partner positively influenced the a…
Sex Differences in Attraction to Familiar and Unfamiliar Opposite-Sex Faces
Integrating social knowledge and physical cues when judging the attractiveness of potential mates
Effects of Partner Beauty on Opposite-Sex Attractiveness Judgments
Variation in perceptions of physical dominance and trustworthiness predicts individual differences in the effect of relationship context on women's preferences for masculine pitch in men's voices
Several studies have found that women tend to demonstrate stronger preferences for masculine men as short‐term partners than as long‐term partners, though there is considerable variation among women in the magnitude of this effect. One possible source of this variation is individual differences in the extent to which women perceive masculine men to possess antisocial traits that are less costly in short‐term relationships than in long‐term relati…
The Role of Attractiveness in Gendered Sexual Response Patterns
Previously documented sexual response patterns of gender-specificity among gynephilic men and gender-nonspecificity among gynephilic women could be explained by women responding more strongly to non-gendered aspects of sexual stimuli. Cues of attractiveness are known determinants of sexual decision-making, yet have not been directly tested as determinants of sexual response. The current study investigated the role of attractiveness cues in explai…
Big team' science challenges us to reconsider authorship
Shifts in Women’s Mate Preferences Across the Ovulatory Cycle
Perceptions of partner femininity predict individual differences in men's sensitivity to facial cues of male dominance
Recent research suggests that men may possess adaptations that evolved to counter strategic variation in women's preferences for masculine men. For example, women's preferences for masculine, dominant men are stronger during the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle than at other times and men demonstrate increased sensitivity to facial cues of male dominance when their partners are ovulating. Such variation in men's dominance perceptions may prom…
Resemblance to self increases the appeal of child faces to both men and women
The voice and face of woman
Women's physical and psychological condition independently predict their preference for apparent health in faces
Visual adaptation to masculine and feminine faces influences generalized preferences and perceptions of trustworthiness
Sensation seeking and men's face preferences
Perceived vulnerability to disease is positively related to the strength of preferences for apparent health in faces
People who are particularly vulnerable to disease may reduce their likelihood of contracting illnesses during social interactions by having particularly strong aversions to individuals who appear ill. Consistent with this proposal, here we show that men and women who perceive themselves to be particularly vulnerable to disease have stronger preferences for apparent health in dynamic faces than individuals who perceive themselves to be relatively …
The valence of experiences with faces influences generalized preferences
Although it is well-established that generalized face preferences influence a wide range of social outcomes, little is known about the proximate mechanisms through which such preferences develop. In two experiments we show that preferences for composites of faces that had been seen paired with an aversive auditory stimulus were significantly weaker than preferences for composites of faces that had been seen paired with a relatively neutral audito…
Facial correlates of sociosexuality
A cue of kinship promotes cooperation for the public good
Social influence in human face preference
Correlated preferences for men's facial and vocal masculinity
Exposure to sexually attractive men decreases women's preferences for feminine faces
Here we show that women's preferences for femininity (vs. masculinity) in men's faces are decreased after viewing a slideshow of images of highly attractive men, but not after viewing a slideshow of relatively unattractive men. As masculinity is thought to be a cue of men's heritable fitness, and viewing images of highly attractive opposite-sex individuals increases sexual motivation, this may indicate that women increase their preferences for ma…
Effects of Menstrual Cycle Phase on Face Preferences
Social Perception of Facial Resemblance in Humans
Attractiveness qualifies the effect of observation on trusting behavior in an economic game
Face and voice attractiveness judgments change during adolescence
Hormonal contraceptive use and perceptions of trust modulate the effect of relationship context on women's preferences for sexual dimorphism in male face shape
Women demonstrate stronger preferences for femininity when assessing men's attractiveness for long-term rather than short-term relationships. One explanation of this effect is that the pro-social traits associated with femininity are particularly important for long-term relationships. This explanation has recently been challenged, however, following null findings for effects of pro-social attributions on women's preferences for feminine long-term…
Women's preferences for masculinity in male faces are predicted by pathogen disgust, but not by moral or sexual disgust
Women's voice pitch is negatively correlated with health risk factors
Previous studies have demonstrated that men prefer women's voices with relatively high pitch to those with low pitch, suggesting that men may use voice pitch as a cue of women's mate quality. However, evidence that voice pitch is a cue to women's long-term health is equivocal. Here we present evidence that women's average speaking voice pitch is negatively correlated with a health risk index derived from principle component analysis of various bo…
Sex-Dimorphic Face Shape Preference in Heterosexual and Homosexual Men and Women
Sexual dimorphism of male face shape, partnership status and the temporal context of relationship sought modulate women's preferences for direct gaze
Most previous studies of face preferences have investigated the physical cues that influence face preferences. Far fewer studies have investigated the effects of cues to the direction of others' social interest (i.e. gaze direction) on face preferences. Here we found that unpartnered women demonstrated stronger preferences for direct gaze (indicating social interest) from feminine male faces than from masculine male faces when judging men's attra…
Like father, like self
Apparent health encourages reciprocity
Facial attractiveness
Face preferences affect a diverse range of critical social outcomes, from mate choices and decisions about platonic relationships to hiring decisions and decisions about social exchange. Firstly, we review the facial characteristics that influence attractiveness judgements of faces (e.g. symmetry, sexually dimorphic shape cues, averageness, skin colour/texture and cues to personality) and then review several important sources of individual differ…
Cooperation and Conflict in the Light of Kin Recognition Systems
Genetic relatedness is central to the problems of social evolution. Whenever individuals interact nonrandomly with respect to genotype, their actions may have indirect fitness consequences. Although population structure affects the frequency of interactions among relatives, kin recognition systems can help optimize behavior to the advantage of the actor’s genetic posterity. Here, we review the functional and mechanistic foundations of kin recogni…
Psychology (70 obras) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (67 obras) · Social Psychology (55 obras) · Developmental psychology (46 obras) · Attractiveness (37 obras) · Biology (31 obras) · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification (26 obras) · Physical attractiveness (25 obras) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (20 obras) · Facial attractiveness (17 obras)