Intelligence and physical violence emerged as being especially likely to boost sex partner accumulation for the number of lifetime sex partners and nonrelationship partners in men.
Men and women differed in the percentage indicating it was “desirable” or “essential” that their potential partner was good-looking (92% vs. 84%; d=.39), had a slender body (80% vs. 58%; d=.53), had a steady income (74% vs. 97%; d= 1.17), and made/will make a lot of money (47% vs. 69%; d=-.49).
Sexual experience (both coital and non-coital) is linked to a greater degree of hos- tile and benevolent sexist beliefs, but only within the male group.
Across three studies, when controlling for other characteristics (e.g., body fat), muscular men rate their bodies as sexier to women (partial rs = .49-.62) and report more lifetime sex partners (partial rs = .20-.27), short-term partners (partial rs = .25-.28), and more affairs with mated women (partial r = .28).
Baed on research indicating single males have higher testosterone levels than partnered males and that higher testosterone levels are associated with stronger smelling BO, the current study aimed to determine if, by extension of previous findings, single males’ BO smells stronger than partnered males’ BO.
Consistent with the hypothesis, single men’s BO smelled stronger than partnered men’s BO and single men’s faces were rated as more masculine than partnered men’s faces.
Expert judges viewing the photographs found smaller smiles among high than low testosterone men, with less zygomatic major (raising the corners of the mouth) and orbicularis oculi (raising the cheeks and crinkling around the corners of the eyes) muscle activity.
A third study of football player photographs revealed that the faces of less dominant (smaller) football players were more similar to the canonical smile display than the faces of their physically larger counterparts
In other words, smiling seems to convey information that is not limited to advertising the emotional state of the displayer (e.g., I feel happy) but also appear to generate inferences—in the mind of observers—about the dispositional characteristics of the displayer (e.g., I am friendly and non-threatening), a view that is consistent with facial expression research in the behavioral ecology tradition (Fridlund, 1994; Parkinson, 2003).
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