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QOVES Beauty Podcast Ep. 2 - What Do Women Want? Facialmetric Assessment of Multiple Motives in the Perception of Male Facial Physical Attractiveness
🕑 Added 2021-05-20 08:17:08 +0000 UTCIn this episode we dissect Cunningham et al's 1990 paper on female facial preferences in men and why more 'babyish' (neotenous) features are actually preferred over hyper-masculine ones. This podcast takes a deep dive into facial aesthetics research, providing additional context, commentary and findings while simplifying the research into a more generalized application of beauty research for a contemporary audience.
In the audio, male model Dan Brown is mentioned for his neotenous looks which combine both the mature, developed elements of a face such as a strong jawline and high cheekbones with immature elements such as rounded eyes and high eyebrows. The research points to this type of prototypical face actually being the most attractive by female preferences, beating out hypermasculine and hyperfeminine male faces.
Cunningham, M. R., Barbee, A. P., & Pike, C. L. (1990). What do women want? Facialmetric assessment of multiple motives in the perception of male facial physical attractiveness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59(1), 61–72. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.59.1.61
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That's an interesting question Remi, and I've wondered so myself what the confounding factors are as to why we're shifting towards a preferance for more feminized faces. However, there isn't enough conclusive evidence to suggest that any of it has to do with hormones, the answer is rather more simple. The popularity of pretty-boy boybands that appeal to the female gaze, such as BTS and One Direction explain the situation better. If Boybands like these were a thing in the 60s, I would expect the same trend to occur, and popstars such as Elvis weren't particularily masculine either, but were considered sex-symbols in their own right!
Do you think that the importance of estrogen in the regulation of men's sexual health (without any estrogen, men can not complete a full erection and [anectodaly] become asexual) might (also) explain the attraction to a masculin+feminin face rather than the "drill sargent" face ? Love the vids and the podecasts BTW
Hi Sadiya, I'm unable to replicate the issue on my side. You can try downloading the audio file itself by clicking the red hyperlink above (under the title) and that should resolve the issue.
I was really enjoying this, until the audio cuts off (@around 18 min in.) It would be really lovely if you could fix it. I look forward to fishing the episode. Thanks!
