School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom AB24 3FX. mail:
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 2010 Jun;36(3):751-8. doi: 10.1037/a0016457.
Women's preferences for male masculinity are highly variable. Although many researchers explain this variability as reflecting systematic individual differences in how women resolve the tradeoff between the costs and benefits of choosing a masculine partner, others suggest that methodological differences between studies are responsible. A recent study found general femininity preferences for judgments of faces that were manipulated in sexual dimorphism of shape but general masculinity preferences for judgments of faces that were based on perceived masculinity. Using the original stimuli, we replicated these previous results but found equivalent general femininity preferences for both types of faces when nonface confounds in the stimuli (e.g. hairstyle) were eliminated through masking. We conclude that care must be taken to control potential confounds in stimuli and that the influence of nonface cues on preferences for facial masculinity deserves further study.
女性对男性气质的偏好具有高度的可变性。虽然许多研究人员将这种可变性解释为反映了女性在权衡选择具有男子气概的伴侣的成本和收益时的系统个体差异，但也有人认为，研究之间的方法学差异是造成这种可变性的原因。最近的一项研究发现，对于在形状性别二态性上进行操纵的面孔的判断，存在普遍的女性化偏好，而对于基于感知到的男性气质的面孔的判断，则存在普遍的男性化偏好。使用原始刺激，我们复制了这些先前的结果，但当通过掩蔽消除刺激中的非面孔混杂因素（例如发型）时，对于这两种类型的面孔都存在等效的普遍女性化偏好。我们得出结论，必须注意控制刺激中的潜在混杂因素，并且非面孔线索对面部男性气质偏好的影响值得进一步研究。
