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Does testosterone predict women’s preference for facial masculinity?
The influence of sex hormones on women’s mate preferences has been an intensively discussed topic for more than a decade. Yet the extent to which levels of sex hormones, and testosterone in particular, influence women’s mate preferences is unclear. Thus, the current study used multilevel modelling t...
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2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6392222/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30811400 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210636 |
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author | Marcinkowska, Urszula M. Helle, Samuli Jones, Benedict C. Jasienska, Grazyna |
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description | The influence of sex hormones on women’s mate preferences has been an intensively discussed topic for more than a decade. Yet the extent to which levels of sex hormones, and testosterone in particular, influence women’s mate preferences is unclear. Thus, the current study used multilevel modelling to investigate putative relationships between salivary testosterone and facial masculinity preferences in a sample of 68 women, while controlling for their age, partnership status, and sociosexuality. We found no significant associations between masculinity preferences and either individual differences or within-woman changes in testosterone. We did find however, that sociosexuality was positively correlated with masculinity preferences. Although it has previously been suggested that testosterone is related to women’s facial masculinity preference, our data do not support this proposal. |
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spelling | pubmed-63922222019-03-08 Does testosterone predict women’s preference for facial masculinity? Marcinkowska, Urszula M. Helle, Samuli Jones, Benedict C. Jasienska, Grazyna PLoS One Research Article The influence of sex hormones on women’s mate preferences has been an intensively discussed topic for more than a decade. Yet the extent to which levels of sex hormones, and testosterone in particular, influence women’s mate preferences is unclear. Thus, the current study used multilevel modelling to investigate putative relationships between salivary testosterone and facial masculinity preferences in a sample of 68 women, while controlling for their age, partnership status, and sociosexuality. We found no significant associations between masculinity preferences and either individual differences or within-woman changes in testosterone. We did find however, that sociosexuality was positively correlated with masculinity preferences. Although it has previously been suggested that testosterone is related to women’s facial masculinity preference, our data do not support this proposal. Public Library of Science 2019-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6392222/ /pubmed/30811400 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210636 Text en © 2019 Marcinkowska et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Marcinkowska, Urszula M. Helle, Samuli Jones, Benedict C. Jasienska, Grazyna Does testosterone predict women’s preference for facial masculinity? |
title | Does testosterone predict women’s preference for facial masculinity? |
title_full | Does testosterone predict women’s preference for facial masculinity? |
title_fullStr | Does testosterone predict women’s preference for facial masculinity? |
title_full_unstemmed | Does testosterone predict women’s preference for facial masculinity? |
title_short | Does testosterone predict women’s preference for facial masculinity? |
title_sort | does testosterone predict women’s preference for facial masculinity? |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6392222/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30811400 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210636 |
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