Misperception of the facial appearance that the opposite-sex desires.

Autor: Perrett DI; School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom., Holzleitner IJ; School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom., Lei X; School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2024 Nov 14; Vol. 19 (11), pp. e0310835. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Nov 14 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0310835
Abstrakt: Thin and muscular have been characterised as body shape ideals for women and men, respectively, yet each sex misperceives what the other sex desires; women exaggerate the thinness that men like and men exaggerate the muscularity that women like. Body shape ideals align with stereotypic perceptions of femininity in women and masculinity in men. The present study investigates whether misperception of opposite-sex desires extends to femininity/masculinity in facial morphology. We used interactive 3D head models to represent faces varying in sexual dimorphism. White European heterosexual men and women were asked to choose their own and ideal face shape, the ideal shape of a short- and a long-term partner, and the face shape they thought the opposite sex would most like for a short- and a long-term partner. Women overestimated the facial femininity that men prefer in a partner and men overestimated the facial masculinity that women prefer in a partner. The discrepancy between own and ideal sexual dimorphism (an index of appearance dissatisfaction) covaried with by the misperception of what the opposite-sex desires. These results indicate misperception of opposite-sex facial preferences and that mistaken perceptions may contribute to dissatisfaction with own appearance.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2024 Perrett et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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