Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
PLoS One. 2020 Mar 5;15(3):e0229133. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229133. eCollection 2020.
Women's preferences for masculine characteristics in men's faces have been extensively studied. By contrast, little is known about how gay men respond to masculine facial characteristics. One area of disagreement in the emerging literature on this topic is the association between gay men's partnership status and masculinity preference. One study found that partnered gay men showed stronger preferences for masculine faces than did single gay men, while another study found that partnered gay men showed weaker preferences for masculine faces than did single gay men. We re-examined this issue in a sample of 618 gay men, finding no significant difference between partnered and single gay men's masculinity preferences. Together with the mixed previous findings, our null result suggests that the effect of partnership status on gay men's face preferences is not robust.
女性对面部男性特征的偏好已经得到了广泛的研究。相比之下，人们对男同性恋者如何回应男性化的面部特征知之甚少。在这个主题的新兴文献中，一个存在分歧的领域是男同性恋者的伴侣关系状况和对男性化特征的偏好之间的关联。一项研究发现，有伴侣的男同性恋者比单身男同性恋者表现出更强的男性化面孔偏好，而另一项研究发现，有伴侣的男同性恋者比单身男同性恋者表现出更弱的男性化面孔偏好。我们在 618 名男同性恋者的样本中重新研究了这个问题，没有发现有伴侣的男同性恋者和单身男同性恋者的男性化偏好有显著差异。结合之前的混合研究结果，我们的零结果表明，伴侣关系状况对男同性恋者的面部偏好的影响并不显著。
