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Facial and bodily correlates of family background (2006)
Journal Article
Boothroyd, L., & Perrett, D. (2006). Facial and bodily correlates of family background. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 273(1599), 2375-2380. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.3579

It has been suggested that absence of the father during early childhood has long-reaching effects on reproductive strategy and development of offspring. This paper reports two studies designed to investigate the physical characteristics of daughters... Read More about Facial and bodily correlates of family background.

Correlated preferences for facial masculinity and ideal or actual partner's masculinity. (2006)
Journal Article
DeBruine, L., Jones, B., Little, A., Boothroyd, L., Perrett, D., Penton-Voak, I., …Tiddeman, B. (2006). Correlated preferences for facial masculinity and ideal or actual partner's masculinity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 273(1592), 1355-1360. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2005.3445

Studies of women's preferences for male faces have variously reported preferences for mas- culine faces, preferences for feminine faces, and no effect of masculinity-femininity on male facial attractiveness. It has been suggested that these apparentl... Read More about Correlated preferences for facial masculinity and ideal or actual partner's masculinity..

Facial appearance is a cue to oestrogen levels in women (2006)
Journal Article
Law-Smith, M., Perrett, D., Jones, B., Cornwell, R., Moore, F., Feinberg, D., …Hillier, S. (2006). Facial appearance is a cue to oestrogen levels in women. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 273(1583), 135-140. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2005.3296

Although many accounts of facial attractiveness propose that femininity in women's faces indicates high levels of oestrogen, there is little empirical evidence in support of this assumption. Here, we used assays for urinary metabolites of oestrogen (... Read More about Facial appearance is a cue to oestrogen levels in women.