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http://hdl.handle.net/1893/25210| Appears in Collections: | Psychology Journal Articles |
| Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
| Title: | Circum-menopausal effects on women's judgements of facial attractiveness |
| Author(s): | Vukovic, Jovana Jones, Benedict C DeBruine, Lisa M Little, Anthony Feinberg, David R Welling, Lisa L M |
| Contact Email: | anthony.little@stir.ac.uk |
| Keywords: | Adult Affect age Attractiveness Behaviour difference Face face preferences Faces facial attractiveness feminine femininity judgement knowledge Men preference Preferences VIEW Women women's preferences |
| Issue Date: | 23-Feb-2009 |
| Date Deposited: | 27-Mar-2017 |
| Citation: | Vukovic J, Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Little A, Feinberg DR & Welling LLM (2009) Circum-menopausal effects on women's judgements of facial attractiveness. Biology Letters, 5 (1), pp. 62-64. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2008.0478 |
| Abstract: | The marked change in a woman's hormonal profile that happens at menopause affects many aspects of behaviour. We investigated circum-menopausal women's preferences for femininity in the faces of young adult men and women. Post-menopausal women demonstrated stronger preferences for femininity in same-sex faces than pre-menopausal women did. This effect was independent of possible effects of participant's age and suggests that dislike of feminine (i.e. attractive) same-sex competitors decreases as fertility decreases. No significant difference between pre- and post-menopausal women was observed for men's faces, potentially because circum-menopausal women do not necessarily view young adult men as potential mates. To our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate circum-menopausal changes in women's face preferences. |
| DOI Link: | 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0478 |
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