Literature in evolutionary psychology suggests that mate choice has been the primary
mechanism of sexual selection in humans, but this conclusion conforms neither to …

Humans in societies around the world discriminate between potential mates on the basis of
attractiveness in ways that can dramatically affect their lives. From an evolutionary …

Current theoretical and empirical findings suggest that mate preferences are mainly cued on
visual, vocal and chemical cues that reveal health including developmental health. Beautiful …

Why do people resort to plastic surgery to look young? Why are stepchildren at greatest risk
of fatal abuse? Why do we prefer gossip to algebra? Why must Dogon wives live alone in a …

The human face communicates an impressive number of visual signals. Although adults'
ratings of facial attractiveness are consistent across studies, even cross-culturally, there has …

Facial attractiveness has been suggested to provide signals of biological quality, particularly
health, in humans. The attractive traits that have been implicated as signals of biological …

This study examines the accuracy of 54 online dating photographs posted by heterosexual
daters. We report data on (a1) online daters' self-reported accuracy,(b) independent judges' …

We investigated aspects of self-reported health history–the number and duration of
respiratory and stomach or intestinal infections and the number of uses of antibiotics over …

If attractiveness is an important cue for mate choice, as proposed by evolutionary
psychologists, then attractive individuals should have greater mating success than their …

Everywhere the issue has been examined, people make discriminations about others'
physical attractiveness. Can human standards of physical attractiveness be understood …