Abstract:
:The human face displays a wealth of information, including information about dominance and fecundity. Dominance and fecundity are also associated with lower concentrations of the stress hormone cortisol, suggesting that cortisol may negatively predict facial dominance and attractiveness. We digitally photographed 61 women's faces, had these images rated by men and women for dominance, attractiveness, and femininity, and explored relationships between these perceptions and women's salivary cortisol concentrations. In a first study, we found that women with more dominant-appearing, but not more attractive, faces had lower cortisol levels. These associations were not due to age, ethnicity, time since waking, testosterone, or its interaction with cortisol. In a second study, composite images of women with low cortisol were perceived as more dominant than those of women with high cortisol significantly more often than chance by two samples of viewers, with a similar but non-significant trend in a third sample. However, data on perceptions of attractiveness were mixed; low-cortisol images were viewed as more attractive by two samples of US viewers and as less attractive by a sample of Mexican viewers. Our results suggest that having a more dominant-appearing face may be associated with lower stress and hence lower cortisol in women, and provide further evidence regarding the information content of the human face.
journal_name
Horm Behavjournal_title
Hormones and behaviorauthors
Gonzalez-Santoyo I,Wheatley JR,Welling LL,Cárdenas RA,Jimenez-Trejo F,Dawood K,Puts DAdoi
10.1016/j.yhbeh.2015.03.006subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2015-05-01 00:00:00pages
16-21eissn
0018-506Xissn
1095-6867pii
S0018-506X(15)00039-2journal_volume
71pub_type
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