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It also seems unclear as to whether or to what extent a higher fWHR is associated with facial masculinity. Researchers in 2015 has found no positive link between fWHR and rater's evaluations of men's facial masculinity.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513814001640</ref> | It also seems unclear as to whether or to what extent a higher fWHR is associated with facial masculinity. Researchers in 2015 has found no positive link between fWHR and rater's evaluations of men's facial masculinity.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513814001640</ref> | ||
Another set of researchers also discovered fWHR was | Another set of researchers also discovered fWHR was ''negatively'' correlated with 'global facial masculinity' in their dataset (N = 188, r = -0.32).<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513813000275</ref> This may have been confounded somewhat by the positive association between fWHR and greater levels of facial fat, which is a feminine, sexually dimorphic trait, derived from the influence women's higher estrogen levels have on their levels of subcutaneous fat and the distribution of said fat. The researchers controlled for BMI but not for facial adiposity in particular. | ||
==fWHR and social perceptions== | ==fWHR and social perceptions== | ||