Lee Pengting, Li Jingheng, Jones Benedict C, Shiramizu Victor K M
Department of Psychological Sciences & Health, University of Strathclyde, UK.
Evol Psychol. 2025 Jul-Sep;23(3):14747049251376924. doi: 10.1177/14747049251376924. Epub 2025 Sep 8.
Researchers have suggested that men with more masculine facial characteristics have stronger immune systems but are perceived to be less likely to invest resources in partners and offspring. How women resolve this putative trade-off between the costs and benefits of choosing a masculine mate have previously been reported to be associated with women's openness to uncommitted relationships (i.e., their sociosexuality) and self-perceived mate value. However, not all studies have reported these links and the methods used to assess masculinity preferences in studies reporting these patterns of results (forced-choice tests using stimuli in which masculinity was experimentally manipulated) have recently been criticized for having low ecological validity. Consequently, we tested whether sociosexuality or self-perceived mate value predicted women's masculinity preferences when masculinity preferences were assessed using ratings of individual natural (i.e., unmanipulated) male faces. Our analyses show no evidence that individual differences in women's sociosexuality or self-perceived mate value significantly predicted masculinity preferences. Thus, our results do not support the proposal that sociosexuality and/or self-perceived mate value are important sources of individual differences in women's preferences for male facial masculinity.
研究人员指出，面部特征更具男子气概的男性拥有更强的免疫系统，但人们认为他们在伴侣和后代身上投入资源的可能性较小。此前有报道称，女性如何解决选择具有男子气概配偶的成本与收益之间这种假定的权衡，与女性对无承诺关系的开放程度（即她们的社会性取向）以及自我感知的配偶价值有关。然而，并非所有研究都报告了这些联系，而且在报告这些结果模式的研究中用于评估男子气概偏好的方法（使用对男子气概进行实验性操纵的刺激物的强制选择测试）最近因生态效度低而受到批评。因此，当使用个体自然（即未经过处理）男性面孔的评分来评估男子气概偏好时，我们测试了社会性取向或自我感知的配偶价值是否能预测女性的男子气概偏好。我们的分析表明，没有证据表明女性社会性取向或自我感知的配偶价值的个体差异能显著预测男子气概偏好。因此，我们的结果不支持社会性取向和/或自我感知的配偶价值是女性对男性面部男子气概偏好个体差异的重要来源这一观点。
