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LLM Welling, BC Jones, LM DeBruine, FG Smith, DR Feinberg, AC Little & EAS Al-Dujaili. Men report stronger attraction to femininity in women's faces when their testosterone levels are high. Hormones and Behavior
54(5):703-708.
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 sessions where salivary testosterone was
relatively low. Men reported stronger attraction to femininity in
women’s faces in test sessions where salivary testosterone was high
than in test sessions where salivary testosterone was low. This effect
was found to be specific to judgments of opposite-sex faces. The
strength of men’s reported attraction to femininity in men’s faces did
not differ between high and low testosterone test sessions, suggesting
that the effect of testosterone that we observed for judgments of
women’s faces was not due to a general response bias. Collectively,
these findings suggest that changes in testosterone levels contribute
to the strength of men’s reported attraction to femininity in women’s
faces and complement previous findings showing that testosterone
modulates men’s interest in sexual stimuli. |
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