A new study reveals women prefer men with full beards for long-term relationships
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Women find men who wear full beards more suitable for long-term relationships , suggests new research.
Women tend to find beardedness attractive when judging long-termrelationships , perhaps as a signal of formidability among males and the potential to provide direct benefits, such as enhanced fertility and survival, to females, the study said.
“Results showed a significant interaction between beardedness andmasculinity on attractiveness ratings,” the study said.
For the study, Barnaby Dixson fromUniversity of Queensland in Australia and his colleagues used computer graphic manipulation to morph male faces varying in facial hair from clean-shaven, light stubble, heavy stubble, and full beards, with additional differences in brow ridge, cheekbones, jawline, and other features so that the same man appeared more or less masculine.
Stubble was judged as most attractive overall and received higher ratings for short-term relationships than full beards, which were more attractive for long-term relationships.
Extremely masculine and extremely feminine-looking males were least attractive, irrespective of relationship context, the study, published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, showed.
“Sexual selection via female choice has shaped the evolution of male ornamentation in many species,” the authors wrote.
Research by Dixson and Brooks (2013) used similar procedures and recorded judgments by both men and women on the faces of men with varying degrees of facial hair. As in the first study, women found stubble on men most attractive, (In the study, the stubble was heavier.)
Women rated men with full beards as highest for perceived parenting ability and healthiness. Interestingly, as facial hair increased, women’s ratings of masculinity increased, too. Men however, liked found full beards as appealing as heavy stubble. Men also noted a greater perception of masculinity as facial hair increased.
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Women tend to find beardedness attractive when judging long-term
“Results showed a significant interaction between beardedness and
For the study, Barnaby Dixson from
Stubble was judged as most attractive overall and received higher ratings for short-term relationships than full beards, which were more attractive for long-term relationships.
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“Sexual selection via female choice has shaped the evolution of male ornamentation in many species,” the authors wrote.
Research by Dixson and Brooks (2013) used similar procedures and recorded judgments by both men and women on the faces of men with varying degrees of facial hair. As in the first study, women found stubble on men most attractive, (In the study, the stubble was heavier.)
Women rated men with full beards as highest for perceived parenting ability and healthiness. Interestingly, as facial hair increased, women’s ratings of masculinity increased, too. Men however, liked found full beards as appealing as heavy stubble. Men also noted a greater perception of masculinity as facial hair increased.
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