Within-woman hormone-attractiveness correlations are not simply byproducts of between-women hormone-attractiveness correlations

Women's hormone levels modulate the motivational salience of facial attractiveness and sexual dimorphism.

The physical attractiveness of faces is positively correlated with both behavioral and neural measures of their motivational salience. Although previous work suggests that hormone levels modulate women's perceptions of others' facial attractiveness, studies have not yet investigated whether hormone levels also modulate the motivational salience of facial characteristics. To address this issue, ...

Facial appearance is a cue to oestrogen levels in women.

Although many accounts of facial attractiveness propose that femininity in women's faces indicates high levels of oestrogen, there is little empirical evidence in support of this assumption. Here, we used assays for urinary metabolites of oestrogen (oestrone-3-glucuronide, E1G) and progesterone (pregnanediol-3-glucuronide, P3G) to investigate the relationship between circulating gonadal hormone...

The Correlations of Anti-Mullerian Hormone, Follicle-Stimulating Hormone and Antral Follicle Count in Different Age Groups of Infertile Women

Men's perception of women's attractiveness is calibrated to relative mate value and dominance of the women's partner

We tested the hypothesis that men are particularly sensitive to individual differences in the attractiveness of women of the same mate value as themselves and less sensitive to variation among women of lower or higher mate value. We first assessed sensitivity to variation in women's attractiveness by asking men (n=148) to choose the more attractive of two photographs of the same target woman (n...

Facial attractiveness is related to women's cortisol and body fat, but not with immune responsiveness.

Recent studies suggest that facial attractiveness indicates immune responsiveness in men and that this relationship is moderated by stress hormones which interact with testosterone levels. However, studies testing whether facial attractiveness in women signals their immune responsiveness are lacking. Here, we photographed young Latvian women, vaccinated them against hepatitis B and measured the...