Is there no beauty in sexually dimorphic eyes? Facial attractiveness and White Europeans ocular morphology—Brief communication

The link between human ocular morphology and attractiveness, especially in the context of its potential adaptive function, is an underexplored area of research. In our study, we examined the association between facial attractiveness and three sexually dimorphic measures of ocular morphology in White...

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Autores principales: Danel, Dariusz P., Perea-Garcia, Juan Olvido, Lewandowski, Zdzisław, Szala, Anna, Fedurek, Piotr, Kleisner, Karel, Wacewicz, Sławomir
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10079083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37023103
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284079
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author Danel, Dariusz P.
Perea-Garcia, Juan Olvido
Lewandowski, Zdzisław
Szala, Anna
Fedurek, Piotr
Kleisner, Karel
Wacewicz, Sławomir
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Perea-Garcia, Juan Olvido
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Szala, Anna
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description The link between human ocular morphology and attractiveness, especially in the context of its potential adaptive function, is an underexplored area of research. In our study, we examined the association between facial attractiveness and three sexually dimorphic measures of ocular morphology in White Europeans: the sclera size index, width-to-height ratio, and relative iris luminance. Sixty participants (30 women) assessed the attractiveness of the opposite-sex photographs of 50 men and 50 women. Our results show that in both men and women, none of the three measures was linked to the opposite sex ratings of facial attractiveness. We conclude that those ocular morphology measures may play a limited role in human mate preferences.
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spelling pubmed-100790832023-04-07 Is there no beauty in sexually dimorphic eyes? Facial attractiveness and White Europeans ocular morphology—Brief communication Danel, Dariusz P. Perea-Garcia, Juan Olvido Lewandowski, Zdzisław Szala, Anna Fedurek, Piotr Kleisner, Karel Wacewicz, Sławomir PLoS One Research Article The link between human ocular morphology and attractiveness, especially in the context of its potential adaptive function, is an underexplored area of research. In our study, we examined the association between facial attractiveness and three sexually dimorphic measures of ocular morphology in White Europeans: the sclera size index, width-to-height ratio, and relative iris luminance. Sixty participants (30 women) assessed the attractiveness of the opposite-sex photographs of 50 men and 50 women. Our results show that in both men and women, none of the three measures was linked to the opposite sex ratings of facial attractiveness. We conclude that those ocular morphology measures may play a limited role in human mate preferences. Public Library of Science 2023-04-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10079083/ /pubmed/37023103 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284079 Text en © 2023 Danel et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Danel, Dariusz P.
Perea-Garcia, Juan Olvido
Lewandowski, Zdzisław
Szala, Anna
Fedurek, Piotr
Kleisner, Karel
Wacewicz, Sławomir
Is there no beauty in sexually dimorphic eyes? Facial attractiveness and White Europeans ocular morphology—Brief communication
title Is there no beauty in sexually dimorphic eyes? Facial attractiveness and White Europeans ocular morphology—Brief communication
title_full Is there no beauty in sexually dimorphic eyes? Facial attractiveness and White Europeans ocular morphology—Brief communication
title_fullStr Is there no beauty in sexually dimorphic eyes? Facial attractiveness and White Europeans ocular morphology—Brief communication
title_full_unstemmed Is there no beauty in sexually dimorphic eyes? Facial attractiveness and White Europeans ocular morphology—Brief communication
title_short Is there no beauty in sexually dimorphic eyes? Facial attractiveness and White Europeans ocular morphology—Brief communication
title_sort is there no beauty in sexually dimorphic eyes? facial attractiveness and white europeans ocular morphology—brief communication
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10079083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37023103
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284079
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