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Cues of upper body strength account for most of the variance in men's bodily attractiveness

Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences, 2017-12, Vol.284 (1869), p.20171819-20171819 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2017 The Author(s) ;2017 The Author(s). ;Copyright The Royal Society Publishing Dec 20, 2017 ;2017 The Author(s) 2017 ;ISSN: 0962-8452 ;EISSN: 1471-2954 ;DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1819 ;PMID: 29237852

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    Cues of upper body strength account for most of the variance in men's bodily attractiveness
  • Author: Sell, Aaron ; Lukazsweski, Aaron W. ; Townsley, Michael
  • Subjects: Adolescent ; Adult ; Animal behavior ; Attraction ; Attractiveness ; Beauty ; Behaviour ; Biological evolution ; Cues ; Female ; Fighting ; Formidability ; Humans ; Male ; Mate Selection ; Mating ; Men ; Muscle Strength ; Offspring ; Physical Strength ; Reproduction (biology) ; Strength ; Young Adult
  • Is Part Of: Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences, 2017-12, Vol.284 (1869), p.20171819-20171819
  • Description: Evolution equips sexually reproducing species with mate choice mechanisms that function to evaluate the reproductive consequences of mating with different individuals. Indeed, evolutionary psychologists have shown that women's mate choice mechanisms track many cues of men's genetic quality and ability to invest resources in the woman and her offspring. One variable that predicted both a man's genetic quality and his ability to invest is the man's formidability (i.e. fighting ability or resource holding power/potential). Modern women, therefore, should have mate choice mechanisms that respond to ancestral cues of a man's fighting ability. One crucial component of a man's ability to fight is his upper body strength. Here, we test how important physical strength is to men's bodily attractiveness. Three sets of photographs of men's bodies were shown to raters who estimated either their physical strength or their attractiveness. Estimates of physical strength determined over 70% of men's bodily attractiveness. Additional analyses showed that tallness and leanness were also favoured, and, along with estimates of physical strength, accounted for 80% of men's bodily attractiveness. Contrary to popular theories of men's physical attractiveness, there was no evidence of a nonlinear effect; the strongest men were the most attractive in all samples.
  • Publisher: England: The Royal Society
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0962-8452
    EISSN: 1471-2954
    DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1819
    PMID: 29237852
  • Source: MEDLINE
    PubMed Central
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