Journal article
Salivary cortisol and pathogen disgust predict men's preferences for feminine shape cues in women's faces
Abstract
Recent studies suggest that individuals who are particularly concerned about infectious diseases show stronger preferences for exaggerated sex-typical characteristics in potential mates' faces. However, these studies have generally investigated individual differences in women's mate preferences and relied on questionnaires to assess disease-related concerns. Here we show that men's scores on the pathogen disgust subscale of the Three Domains of …
Authors
Jones BC; Fincher CL; Welling LLM; Little AC; Feinberg DR; Watkins CD; Al-Dujaili EAS; DeBruine LM
Journal
Biological Psychology, Vol. 92, No. 2, pp. 233–240
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
February 2013
DOI
10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.11.014
ISSN
0301-0511