Rerick Peter O, Livingston Tyler N, Singer Jonathan
Department of Psychology, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK 73034, USA.
Department of Psychology, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX 76909, USA.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2025 Aug 14;15(8):1101. doi: 10.3390/bs15081101.
Sexual and romantic partners tend to match on various dimensions of mate value including physical attractiveness. Men may be motivated to inflate their self-perceived physical attractiveness to justify pursuing highly attractive women. In the present research, heterosexual men ( = 180) received random assignment to a two-way between-participants factorial design that tested the effects of a woman's physical attractiveness (low vs. high) and the recipient of her ambiguous sexual behavior (the participant himself or another man) on men's ratings of her sexual intent. Participants rated that attractive women had greater sexual intent compared to unattractive women, but only when the participant himself was the recipient of women's behavior. Men's self-perceived physical attractiveness did not vary as a function of the woman's physical attractiveness except when another man was the recipient of a physically attractive woman's behavior, which reduced men's perceptions of their physical attractiveness. Findings suggested that men's self-perceptions and women's appearance may bias men's sexual judgment.
性伴侣和浪漫伴侣在包括身体吸引力在内的各种配偶价值维度上往往相互匹配。男性可能会被激励去夸大自己所感知到的身体吸引力，以便为追求极具吸引力的女性找到理由。在本研究中，180名异性恋男性被随机分配到一个双因素组间设计中，该设计测试了女性的身体吸引力（低与高）以及她模棱两可的性行为的接受者（参与者本人或另一名男性）对男性对其性意图评分的影响。参与者认为，与不具吸引力的女性相比，有吸引力的女性有更大的性意图，但这仅当参与者本人是女性行为的接受者时才成立。男性自我感知的身体吸引力并不会随着女性的身体吸引力而变化，除非另一名男性是有身体吸引力的女性行为的接受者，这会降低男性对自己身体吸引力的认知。研究结果表明，男性的自我认知和女性的外表可能会使男性的性判断产生偏差。
