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One woman's behavior affects the attractiveness of others

Abstract

Previous research has shown that viewing photos of highly attractive women adversely affects men's evaluations of more typical women and of their own romantic partners. We could not replicate these results, but induced similar effects by showing participants an innocuous mock video interview of an opposite-sex stranger. Mated men's ratings of their partners and unattached men's ratings of other women were both lower if the interviewee had …

Authors

Mishra S; Clark A; Daly M

Journal

Evolution and Human Behavior, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 145–149

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

March 2007

DOI

10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2006.11.001

ISSN

1090-5138