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Men report stronger attraction to femininity in women's faces when their testosterone levels are high

Abstract

Many studies have shown that women's judgments of men's attractiveness are affected by changes in levels of sex hormones. However, no studies have tested for associations between changes in levels of sex hormones and men's judgments of women's attractiveness. To investigate this issue, we compared men's attractiveness judgments of feminized and masculinized women's and men's faces in test sessions where salivary testosterone was high and test …

Authors

Welling LLM; Jones BC; DeBruine LM; Smith FG; Feinberg DR; Little AC; Al-Dujaili EAS

Journal

Hormones and Behavior, Vol. 54, No. 5, pp. 703–708

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

November 2008

DOI

10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.07.012

ISSN

0018-506X