Face preferences affect a diverse range of critical social outcomes, from mate choices and
decisions about platonic relationships to hiring decisions and decisions about social …

Humans are highly sexually dimorphic primates, and some of the most conspicuous human
sex differences occur in the face and voice. Consequently, this article utilizes research …

Throughout the world people differ in the magnitude with which they value strong family ties
or heightened religiosity. We propose that this cross-cultural variation is a result of a …

A large literature proposes that preferences for exaggerated sex typicality in human faces
(masculinity/femininity) reflect a long evolutionary history of sexual and social selection. This …

In evolutionary psychology predictions, women's mate preferences shift between fertile and
nonfertile times of the month to reflect ancestral fitness benefits. Our meta-analytic test …

In the literature on human mate choice, masculine facial morphology is often proposed to be
an intersexual signal of heritable immunocompetence, and hence an important component …

The strength of sexual selection on secondary sexual traits varies depending on prevailing
economic and ecological conditions. In humans, cross-cultural evidence suggests women's …

Many recent evolutionary psychology and human behavioral ecology studies have tested
hypotheses by examining correlations between variables measured at a group level (eg …

The beard is a strikingly sexually dimorphic androgen-dependent secondary sexual trait in
humans. Darwin posited that beards evolved in human ancestors via female choice as a …

Previous work showed high agreement in facial attractiveness preferences within and
across cultures. The aims of the current study were twofold. First, we tested cross-cultural …