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No compelling evidence that preferences for facial masculinity track changes in women’s hormonal status

2017-05-11

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Although widely cited as strong evidence that sexual selection has shaped human facial attractiveness judgments, evidence that preferences for masculine characteristics in men’s faces are related to women’s hormonal status is equivocal and controversial. Consequently, we conducted the largest ever longitudinal study of the hormonal correlates of women’s preferences for facial masculinity (N=584). Analyses showed n...

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DOI: 10.1101/136549

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