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What Does Women's Facial Attractiveness Signal? Implications for an Evolutionary Perspective on Appearance Enhancement.

Benedict C Jones, Alex Jones Orcid Logo, Victor Shiramizu, Claire Anderson

Archives of sexual behavior

Swansea University Author: Alex Jones Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/s10508-021-01955-4

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In their Target Article, Davis and Arnocky (2020) suggest that evolutionary theories of mate preferences can contribute to our understanding of why appearance-enhancement behaviors are seemingly ubiquitous. We support their argument that an interdisciplinary approach, in which evolutionary and other...

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Published in: Archives of sexual behavior
ISSN: 1573-2800
Published: Springer 2021
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57173
Abstract: In their Target Article, Davis and Arnocky (2020) suggest that evolutionary theories of mate preferences can contribute to our understanding of why appearance-enhancement behaviors are seemingly ubiquitous. We support their argument that an interdisciplinary approach, in which evolutionary and other perspectives are fully integrated, will give us a more complete understanding of appearance-enhancement behaviors. We also agree that evolutionary theories of mate preferences have the potential to provide new insights into why such behaviors are so common. Here, we use the literature on women’s facial attractiveness to highlight an important limitation of this argument: uncertainty about precisely what is signalled by physical attractiveness.
Item Description: This Commentary refers to the article available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-020-01745-4.
College: Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences

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