Facial Features: What Women Perceive as Attractive and What Men Consider Attractive

Facial Features: What Women Perceive as Attractive and What Men Consider Attractive

Attractiveness plays an important role in social exchange and in the ability to attract potential mates, especially for women. Several facial traits have been described as reliable indicators of attractiveness in women, but very few studies consider the influence of several measurements simultaneously. In addition, most studies consider just one of two assessments to directly measure attractive...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

What makes a dead cell attractive?

CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE represents the end stage of various cardiac disease etiologies, including hypertension, myocardial infarction/ischemia from atherosclerosis, viral myocarditis, valvular insufficiency, or mutations in genes encoding sarcomeric proteins (1, 10, 11). These events trigger neurohumoral and cellular signaling cascades, ultimately resulting in myocardial adaptation, typically ...

What Makes a Female Voice Attractive?

Vocal attractiveness is highly relevant both for speech technology and for our basic understanding of speech prosody. Yet our knowledge about it is still very limited, and this is particularly true in regard to female voice. The present study explores the nature of female vocal attractiveness by exploring a mechanism that has been shown to be effective in encoding emotions. In a perception expe...

Men perceive their female partners, and themselves, as more attractive around ovulation.

The purpose of this study was to test whether men perceive changes in their female partner's attractiveness as a function of her fertility status. We further tested how both male and female self-perception varies in relation to female fertility status. This study benefits from the use of transvaginal ultrasonography to detect fertility during the regular cycle and the use of a within-subjects d...