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Does the interaction between partnership status and average progesterone level predict women’s preferences for facial masculinity?

View ORCID ProfileLisa M DeBruine, View ORCID ProfileAmanda C Hahn, View ORCID ProfileBenedict C Jones
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/376350
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LMD and BCJ are at University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Abstract

Many studies have attempted to identify biological factors that reliably predict individual differences in women’s preferences for masculine male faces. Marcinkowska et al. (2018, Hormones & Behavior) recently reported that women’s (N=102) preferences for facial masculinity were predicted by the interaction between their relationship status (partnered versus unpartnered) and average progesterone level. Because previous findings for between-women differences in masculinity preferences have often not replicated well, we attempted to replicate Marcinkowska et al’s result in an open data set from another recent study that had not tested this hypothesis (Jones et al., 2018 Psychological Science). In this sample of 316 women, we found that facial masculinity preferences were predicted by the interaction between women’s relationship status and average progesterone level, consistent with Marcinkowska et al’s results. Together, these findings suggest that the combined effects of relationship status and average progesterone level may predict facial masculinity preferences relatively reliably.

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  • Funded by ERC grants to LMD (KINSHIP) and BCJ (OCMATE)

  • We thank U Marcinkowska for helpful comments on and discussions about this work and G Kaminski for sharing the analysis code from the original paper.

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Does the interaction between partnership status and average progesterone level predict women’s preferences for facial masculinity?
Lisa M DeBruine, Amanda C Hahn, Benedict C Jones
bioRxiv 376350; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/376350
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Does the interaction between partnership status and average progesterone level predict women’s preferences for facial masculinity?
Lisa M DeBruine, Amanda C Hahn, Benedict C Jones
bioRxiv 376350; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/376350

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