Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Biol Psychol. 2013 Feb;92(2):233-40. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.11.014. Epub 2012 Nov 24.
Recent studies suggest that individuals who are particularly concerned about infectious diseases show stronger preferences for exaggerated sex-typical characteristics in potential mates' faces. However, these studies have generally investigated individual differences in women's mate preferences and relied on questionnaires to assess disease-related concerns. Here we show that men's scores on the pathogen disgust subscale of the Three Domains of Disgust Scale are positively correlated with their preferences for femininity in women's faces and that this relationship is independent of the possible effects of both sexual and moral disgust. We then show that men with higher trait (i.e., average) salivary cortisol, a biomarker for immunosuppression, have stronger preferences for femininity in women's faces. Finally, we show that pathogen disgust is correlated with partnered men's femininity ratings of both their actual and ideal romantic partner. Together, these findings suggest that disease-related factors are important for individual differences in men's mate preferences.
最近的研究表明，特别关注传染病的个体在潜在伴侣的面部特征上表现出更强的对夸大性别典型特征的偏好。然而，这些研究通常调查了女性伴侣偏好的个体差异，并依赖于问卷来评估与疾病相关的担忧。在这里，我们表明，男性在厌恶感三域量表的病原体厌恶分量表上的得分与他们对女性面部女性化的偏好呈正相关，并且这种关系独立于性厌恶和道德厌恶的可能影响。然后，我们表明，具有较高特质（即平均）唾液皮质醇水平的男性对女性面部的女性化特征具有更强的偏好，皮质醇是免疫抑制的生物标志物。最后，我们表明，病原体厌恶与有伴侣的男性对其实际和理想浪漫伴侣的女性化评价相关。综上所述，这些发现表明，与疾病相关的因素对男性伴侣偏好的个体差异很重要。
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