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<span style="font-size:125%">'''References:'''</span> | <span style="font-size:125%">'''References:'''</span> | ||
* Re DE, Hunter DW, Coetzee V, Tiddeman BP, Xiao D, DeBruine LM, Jones BC, Perrett DI. 2013. ''Looking Like a Leader–Facial Shape Predicts Perceived Height and Leadership Ability.'' PLoS ONE. 8(12): e80957. [[https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080957 FullText]] | * Re DE, Hunter DW, Coetzee V, Tiddeman BP, Xiao D, DeBruine LM, Jones BC, Perrett DI. 2013. ''Looking Like a Leader–Facial Shape Predicts Perceived Height and Leadership Ability.'' PLoS ONE. 8(12): e80957. [[https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080957 FullText]] | ||
===<span style="font-family:'Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif'; font-size:24px; font-weight: normal;">Facial attractiveness is more important than having a fit body because a face can't easily be changed</span>=== | |||
Jonason et al. (2012) reviewed evidence to determine the value of an attractive face relative to an attractive body and performed a small experiment to test how men and women would value each in a short term or long term dating scenario. They found that in both scenarios, an attractive face was valued more than an attractive body. | |||
The reasons they suggest are that facial structure better provides cues of genetic fitness, sexual dimorphism, and health. While a body may be changed easily with diet and exercise modification, a face cannot so easily be changed. This provides the paradox of "self improvement" whereby the things that matter most are the things one can "self improve" the least. | |||
<span style="font-size:125%">'''Quotes:'''</span> | |||
* ''The face advertises masculinity/femininity (Little, Jones, Penton-Voak, Burt, & Perrett, 2002), phenotypic quality,and resistance to developmental assaults, pathogens, and environmental stressors (Thornhill & Gangestad, 1994), and facial symmetry is associated with increased cognitive performance, greater genetic heterozygostity, greater fecundity, better health, increased longevity, lower parasite load, and lower rates of depression (Kowner, 2001).'' | |||
* ''It appears as though both sexes want a long-term mate who has an attractive face over an attractive body. The information carried in a face signals develop-mental stability, resistance to pathogens, and phenotypic quality (Thornhill &Gangestad, 1994). '' | |||
* ''Although facial attractiveness is surely important for short-term mates, it appears to be more valued in long-term mates by both sexes. '' | |||
* ''A body may be more easily changed via diet and exercise whereas the structural traits of the face are resistant to change beyond drastic plastic surgery procedures. Stated another way, the face may be a better or more reliable cue to important pheno-typic qualities despite the correlation between having a quality body and face(Thornhill & Moller, 1997).'' | |||
<span style="font-size:125%">'''References:'''</span> | |||
* Jonason PK, Raulston T, Rotolo A. 2012. ''More Than Just a Pretty Face and a Hot Body: Multiple Cues in Mate-Choice.'' The Journal of Social Psychology. 152(2): 174–184. | |||
===<span style="font-family:'Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif'; font-size:24px; font-weight: normal;">Balding men are perceived as less attractive, less dominant, older, and more appeasing</span>=== | ===<span style="font-family:'Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif'; font-size:24px; font-weight: normal;">Balding men are perceived as less attractive, less dominant, older, and more appeasing</span>=== | ||