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Individual attractiveness preferences differentially modulate immediate and voluntary attention
Physical attractiveness plays a crucial role in mate choice for both men and women. This is reflected in visual attention: people immediately attend towards and look longer at attractive faces, especially when they are motivated to find a partner. However, previous studies did not incorporate real-l...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9905556/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36750588 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29240-5 |
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author | Roth, Tom S. Samara, Iliana Perea-Garcia, Juan Olvido Kret, Mariska E. |
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description | Physical attractiveness plays a crucial role in mate choice for both men and women. This is reflected in visual attention: people immediately attend towards and look longer at attractive faces, especially when they are motivated to find a partner. However, previous studies did not incorporate real-life dating decisions. Here, we aimed to combine attentional tasks with individual attractiveness ratings and a real-life mate choice context, namely a speed-dating paradigm. We investigated whether heterosexual non-committed young adults showed biases in immediate and voluntary attention towards attractive faces and preferred dating partners. In line with previous research, we found considerable individual differences in individual attractiveness preferences. Furthermore, our results showed that men had a bias towards attractive faces and preferred dating partners in the immediate attention task, while results for women were mixed. In the voluntary attention task, however, both men and women had an attentional bias towards attractive faces and preferred dating partners. Our results suggest that individual attractiveness preferences are good predictors of especially voluntary attention. We discuss these findings from an evolutionary perspective and suggest directions for future research. |
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spelling | pubmed-99055562023-02-08 Individual attractiveness preferences differentially modulate immediate and voluntary attention Roth, Tom S. Samara, Iliana Perea-Garcia, Juan Olvido Kret, Mariska E. Sci Rep Article Physical attractiveness plays a crucial role in mate choice for both men and women. This is reflected in visual attention: people immediately attend towards and look longer at attractive faces, especially when they are motivated to find a partner. However, previous studies did not incorporate real-life dating decisions. Here, we aimed to combine attentional tasks with individual attractiveness ratings and a real-life mate choice context, namely a speed-dating paradigm. We investigated whether heterosexual non-committed young adults showed biases in immediate and voluntary attention towards attractive faces and preferred dating partners. In line with previous research, we found considerable individual differences in individual attractiveness preferences. Furthermore, our results showed that men had a bias towards attractive faces and preferred dating partners in the immediate attention task, while results for women were mixed. In the voluntary attention task, however, both men and women had an attentional bias towards attractive faces and preferred dating partners. Our results suggest that individual attractiveness preferences are good predictors of especially voluntary attention. We discuss these findings from an evolutionary perspective and suggest directions for future research. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9905556/ /pubmed/36750588 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29240-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Roth, Tom S. Samara, Iliana Perea-Garcia, Juan Olvido Kret, Mariska E. Individual attractiveness preferences differentially modulate immediate and voluntary attention |
title | Individual attractiveness preferences differentially modulate immediate and voluntary attention |
title_full | Individual attractiveness preferences differentially modulate immediate and voluntary attention |
title_fullStr | Individual attractiveness preferences differentially modulate immediate and voluntary attention |
title_full_unstemmed | Individual attractiveness preferences differentially modulate immediate and voluntary attention |
title_short | Individual attractiveness preferences differentially modulate immediate and voluntary attention |
title_sort | individual attractiveness preferences differentially modulate immediate and voluntary attention |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9905556/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36750588 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29240-5 |
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