Sexually Selective Cognition
Beauty Captures the Mind of the Beholder
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6204631 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jon K Maner (0000-0002-6534-3341, Florida State University), Douglas T Kenrick (0000-0001-8906-2758), D Vaughn Becker (0000-0002-6635-0041), Andrew W Delton (0000-0002-3505-985X), Brian Hofer, Christopher J Wilbur, Steven L Neuberg (0000-0001-6870-896X) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1107-1120 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0022-3514.85.6.1107 |
| PMID | 14674817 |
| OpenAlex | W2150894354 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 82 |
| References cited | 51 |
Across 5 experimental studies, the authors explore selective processing biases for physically attractive others. The findings suggest that (a). both male and female observers selectively attend to physically attractive female targets, (b). limiting the attentional capacity of either gender results in biased frequency estimates of attractive females, (c). although females selectively attend to attractive males, limiting females' attentional capacity does not lead to biased estimates of attractive males, (d). observers of both genders exhibit enhanced recognition memory for attractive females but attenuated recognition for attractive males. Results suggest that different mating-related motives may guide the selective processing of attractive men and women
Beauty · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Limiting · Selective attention · Social cognition · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Neuroscience · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology
Adaptive attentional attunement
Implicit associations with social status
Automatic inattention to attractive alternatives
Attunement to the fertility status of same-sex rivals
Shaping men's memory
Adaptive allocation of attention
Menstrual cycle shifts in attentional bias for courtship language
Eye-tracking women’s preferences for men’s somatotypes
Body Image and Body Change Strategies Within Friendship Dyads and Groups
Physische Attraktivität und individuelles Leistungsverhalten
Attentional bias for positive emotional stimuli
The Good-Subject Effect
Differences in negativity bias underlie variations in political ideology
Motivation
Human evolution and social cognition
The evolution and psychology of self-deception
The Paranoid Optimist
They All Look the Same to Me (Unless They're Angry)
Men’s Preferences for Female Facial Femininity Decline With Age
Influence of Hospital Outdoor Rest Space on the Eye Movement Measures and Self-Rating Restoration of Staff
Fundamental evolved motives meet environmental threats and opportunities
When What Is Beautiful Is Not Good
What People Look at in Multimodal Online Dating Profiles
Let’s just do it
Replicating and reversing the group attractiveness effect
Does beauty capture the eye, even if it's not (overtly) adaptive? A comparative eye-tracking study of spontaneous attention and visual preference with Vast abstract art
Beyond stereotypes
“Although Quite Nice, I Was Somehow Not Attracted by That Person”
Facial attractiveness
Trait inferences about prospective mates
Physical attractiveness and monetary success in German Bundesliga
In the eye of the examinee
Attending to Social Information
Cross-Cultural Comparison of Sensory Preferences in Romantic Attraction
Beauty, educational prestige and vote choice in Indonesia
Das Auge hört mit! / The Eye is Also Listening
Mein(schöner)Prof.de
The role of humour production and humour receptivity in perceived romantic interest
Evolutionary Social Cognition
Intrasexual vigilance
"Does social exclusion motivate interpersonal reconnection? Resolving the "porcupine problem
Cognitive adaptations to stressful environments
Relationship-specific identification and spontaneous relationship maintenance processes
Overperceiving disease cues
Sex ratio and women's career choice
Forbidden fruit
Social exclusion and early-stage interpersonal perception
From the bedroom to the budget deficit
Motivated social categorization
Can't take my eyes off you
Is there a beauty is beastly effect in electoral success? An empirical analysis of the German federal elections 2005 to 2021
Timing is everything
The evolved psychology of mate preferences
Examining Attentional Biases Elicited by Sexual Stimuli Using MouseView.js
Fundamental social motives and the varieties of religious experience
The physical attractiveness of front-runners and electoral success
Aesthetic Capital
Effects of sex, status, and mating cues on expected aggressive responses
I think I like you
The scaffolded mind
Der mediale Attraktivitätsbonus
Physische Attraktivität und Lebenszufriedenheit
Sexual Selection on Human Faces and Voices
The dissociable influence of social context on judgements of facial attractiveness and trustworthiness
The effect of unrelated social exchanges on facial attractiveness judgments
Mere exposure has differential effects on attention allocation to threatening and neutral stimuli
Beauty in the eyes and the hand of the beholder
When the grass on the other side of the fence doesn't matter
A pox on the mind
Can buy me love
The group extremity effect
I only have eyes for you
The implicit cognition of relationship maintenance
Looking the other way
Relational Motives Reduce Attentional Adhesion to Attractive Alternatives in Heterosexual University Students in China
Gazing Behavior During Mixed-Sex Interactions
The frog pond beauty contest
The Electoral Success of Beauties and Beasts
Functional projection
When Romance and Rivalry Awaken
Show versus tell? The effects of mating context on women's memory for a man's physical features and verbal statements
Creating When You Have Less
Too many women?
The Visual Process Method
Fears, phobias, and preparedness
Age preferences in mates reflect sex differences in human reproductive strategies
Dynamical evolutionary psychology
The evolution of human mating
Toward an ecological theory of social perception.
Sexual Strategies Theory
Sex differences in human mate preferences
Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange
Parental Investment and Sexual Selection
Evolution, Traits, and the Stages of Human Courtship
Context‐specific mate choice criteria
What Is Beautiful Is Loved’
Gender differences in effects of physical attractiveness on romantic attraction
Physical attractiveness and subjective well-being
Finding the face in the crowd
Illusory correlation in interpersonal perception
Influence of popular erotica on judgments of strangers and mates
Resisting temptation
From vigilance to violence
The face in the crowd revisited
The necessities and luxuries of mate preferences
Inattentive and contented
Adaptive significance of female physical attractiveness
Exhaustive and heuristic retrieval processes in person cognition
Perception of physical attractiveness
Error management theory
Individual differences in sociosexuality
Evolution and Cognition
Availability
Acquisition of the algorithms of social life
Gender differences in mate selection preferences
| Unique citing works | 82 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,9 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 70 |