Women's self-rated attraction to male faces does not correspond with physiological arousal.

ABSTRACT: There has been little work to determine whether attractiveness ratings of faces correspond to sexual or more general attraction. We tested whether a measure of women's physiological arousal (pupil diameter change) was correlated with ratings of men's facial attractiveness. In Study 1, women rated the faces of men for whom we also measured salivary testosterone. They rated each face for attractiveness, and for desirability for friendship and long- and short-term romantic relationships. Pupil diameter change was not related to subjective ratings of attractiveness, but was positively correlated with the men's testosterone. In Study 2 we compared women's pupil diameter change in response to the faces of men with high versus low testosterone, as well as in response to non-facial images pre-rate

SUBMITTER: Hagerman S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5648837 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature