Dr Sally Street sally.e.street@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Dr Sally Street sally.e.street@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Thomas J.H. Morgan
Alex Thornton
Gillian R. Brown
Kevin N. Laland
Catharine P. Cross
Women appear to copy other women’s preferences for men’s faces. This ‘mate-choice copying’ is often taken as evidence of psychological adaptations for processing social information related to mate choice, for which facial information is assumed to be particularly salient. No experiment, however, has directly investigated whether women preferentially copy each other’s face preferences more than other preferences. Further, because prior experimental studies used artificial social information, the effect of real social information on attractiveness preferences is unknown. We collected attractiveness ratings of pictures of men’s faces, men’s hands, and abstract art given by heterosexual women, before and after they saw genuine social information gathered in real time from their peers. Ratings of faces were influenced by social information, but no more or less than were images of hands and abstract art. Our results suggest that evidence for domain-specific social learning mechanisms in humans is weaker than previously suggested.
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 9, 2018 |
Online Publication Date | Jan 29, 2018 |
Publication Date | Jan 29, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Jan 29, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 30, 2018 |
Journal | Scientific Reports |
Publisher | Nature Research |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 8 |
Issue | 1 |
Article Number | 1715 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19770-8 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1335830 |
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