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Illness in childhood predicts face preferences in adulthood
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- de Barra, Mícheál (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Centrum för evolutionär kulturforskning,University of London, England
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DeBruine, Lisa M. (author)
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Jones, Benedict C. (author)
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Mahmud, Zahid Hayat (author)
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Curtis, Valerie A. (author)
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- Elsevier BV, 2013
- 2013
- English.
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In: Evolution and human behavior. - : Elsevier BV. - 1090-5138 .- 1879-0607. ; 34:6, s. 384-389
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- The value of different mate choices may depend on the local pathogen ecology and on personal infection susceptibility: when there is a high risk of infection, choosing a healthy or immunocompetent mate may be particularly important. Frequency of childhood illness may act as a cue of the ecological and immunological factors relevant to mate preferences. Consistent with this proposal, we found that childhood illness - and frequency of diarrhea in particular - was positively correlated with preferences for exaggerated sex-typical characteristics in opposite-sex, but not same-sex, faces. Moreover, this relationship was stronger among individuals with poorer current health. These data suggest that childhood illness may play a role in calibrating adult mate preferences and have implications for theories of disease-avoidance psychology, life-history strategy and cross-cultural differences in mate preferences.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Psykologi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Psychology (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Evolutionsbiologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Evolutionary Biology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Facial attractiveness
- Infectious disease
- Sexual dimorphism
- Predictive adaptive response
- Behavioral immune system
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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