RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 No evidence that more physically attractive women have higher estradiol or progesterone
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 136515
DO 10.1101/136515
A1 Benedict C Jones
A1 Amanda C Hahn
A1 Claire I Fisher
A1 Hongyi Wang
A1 Michal Kandrik
A1 Chengyang Han
A1 Anthony J Lee
A1 Iris J Holzleitner
A1 Lisa M DeBruine
YR 2017
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/09/14/136515.abstract
AB Putative associations between sex hormones and attractive physical characteristics in women are central to many theories of human physical attractiveness and mate choice. Although such theories have become very influential, evidence that physically attractive and unattractive women have different hormonal profiles is equivocal. Consequently, we investigated hypothesized relationships between salivary estradiol and progesterone and two aspects of women’s physical attractiveness that are commonly assumed to be correlated with levels of these hormones: facial attractiveness (N=249) and waist-to-hip ratio (N=247). Our analyses revealed no evidence that women with more attractive faces or lower (i.e., more attractive) waist-to-hip ratios had higher levels of estradiol or progesterone. These results do not support the influential hypothesis that between-woman differences in physical attractiveness are related to estradiol and/or progesterone.