No compelling evidence that more physically attractive young adult women have higher estradiol or progesterone
Jones, Benedict C. and Hahn, Amanda C. and Fisher, Claire I. and Wang, Hongyi and Kandrik, Michal and Lao, Junpeng and Han, Chengyang and Lee, Anthony J. and Holzleitner, Iris J. and DeBruine, Lisa M. (2018) No compelling evidence that more physically attractive young adult women have higher estradiol or progesterone. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 98. pp. 1-5. ISSN 1873-3360 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.07.026)
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Abstract
Putative associations between sex hormones and attractive physical characteristics in women are central to many theories of human physical attractiveness and mate choice. Although such theories have become very influential, evidence that physically attractive and unattractive women have different hormonal profiles is equivocal. Consequently, we investigated hypothesized relationships between salivary estradiol and progesterone and two aspects of women's physical attractiveness that are commonly assumed to be correlated with levels of these hormones: facial attractiveness (N = 249) and waist-to-hip ratio (N = 247). Our analyses revealed no compelling evidence that women with more attractive faces or lower (i.e., more attractive) waist-to-hip ratios had higher levels of estradiol or progesterone. One analysis did suggest that women with more attractive waist-to-hip ratios had significantly higher progesterone, but the relationship was weak and the relationship not significant in other analyses. These results do not support the influential hypothesis that between-women differences in physical attractiveness are related to estradiol and/or progesterone.
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Jones, Benedict C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7777-0220, Hahn, Amanda C., Fisher, Claire I., Wang, Hongyi, Kandrik, Michal, Lao, Junpeng, Han, Chengyang, Lee, Anthony J., Holzleitner, Iris J. and DeBruine, Lisa M.;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 72687 Dates: DateEvent31 December 2018Published26 July 2018Published Online25 July 2018AcceptedSubjects: Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > Psychology Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Psychological Sciences and Health > Psychology Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 10 Jun 2020 15:54 Last modified: 19 Sep 2024 00:46 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/72687