If dude looks like a woman he is perhaps Mr. Right.
Previous research has shown that girls are inclined to seek masculine faces in sexual partners as a consequence of a primal instinct toward a healthy genetic match to supply the very best odds for offspring — regardless that these men are perceived as less faithful and more more likely to desert the nest.
Nonetheless, a recent study published in Evolutionary Psychology found that girls experiencing economic hard times are interested in men with more feminine features, suggesting that such men are presumed to be more loyal and sure to take a position in long-term parental care.
Researchers recruited 802 heterosexual women from social media whose average age was 25 — with 35.08% being single and 62.30% in committed relationships — to finish a survey that explores three domains of scarcity: material, time, and psychological. Questions were designed to detect in what areas of life women were feeling the squeeze, whether or not they were struggling to pay bills and find time for parenting or felt satisfied with their level of support.
Participants individually took part in a face rating experiment by which 42 male faces were rated based on attractiveness. Researchers used various facial metrics to investigate their preferences, noting perceived masculinity across photographs.
Material scarcity — AKA being broke — was strongly related to an increased preference for feminine male faces, rating them as more attractive overall.
Meanwhile, having too little time and psychological support had no notable effect on the ladies’s preferences for facial masculinity.
Researchers wrote that they hope to expand their study to incorporate more diverse populations because the requisite access to the web would preclude participants from even lower economic rungs.
“These findings provide insight into the choice pressures [of women],” they wrote.
If dude looks like a woman he is perhaps Mr. Right.
Previous research has shown that girls are inclined to seek masculine faces in sexual partners as a consequence of a primal instinct toward a healthy genetic match to supply the very best odds for offspring — regardless that these men are perceived as less faithful and more more likely to desert the nest.
Nonetheless, a recent study published in Evolutionary Psychology found that girls experiencing economic hard times are interested in men with more feminine features, suggesting that such men are presumed to be more loyal and sure to take a position in long-term parental care.
Researchers recruited 802 heterosexual women from social media whose average age was 25 — with 35.08% being single and 62.30% in committed relationships — to finish a survey that explores three domains of scarcity: material, time, and psychological. Questions were designed to detect in what areas of life women were feeling the squeeze, whether or not they were struggling to pay bills and find time for parenting or felt satisfied with their level of support.
Participants individually took part in a face rating experiment by which 42 male faces were rated based on attractiveness. Researchers used various facial metrics to investigate their preferences, noting perceived masculinity across photographs.
Material scarcity — AKA being broke — was strongly related to an increased preference for feminine male faces, rating them as more attractive overall.
Meanwhile, having too little time and psychological support had no notable effect on the ladies’s preferences for facial masculinity.
Researchers wrote that they hope to expand their study to incorporate more diverse populations because the requisite access to the web would preclude participants from even lower economic rungs.
“These findings provide insight into the choice pressures [of women],” they wrote.
