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No evidence that facial attractiveness, femininity, averageness, or coloration are cues to susceptibility to infectious illnesses in a university sample of young adult women

2018-08-11

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<p>Previous reports that women with attractive faces are healthier have been widely cited as evidence that sexual selection has shaped human mate preferences. However, evidence for correlations between women’s physical health and facial attractiveness is equivocal. Moreover, positive results on this issue have generally come from studies of self-reported health in small samples. The current study took standardized...

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Literature Corpus work: 88048624-001b-5b66-9824-ed10a3bc340d
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/hnbv7

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