Testosterone-mediated sex differences in the face shape during adolescence: Subjective impressions and objective features
| Autor: | Tomáš Paus, Claire Lawrence, Michel Perron, G. Bruce Pike, M. Mallar Chakravarty, Louis Richer, Suzanne Veillette, Klara Mareckova, Rosanne Aleong, Zdenka Pausova, Gabriel Leonard, Zohar Weinbrand |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Developmental psychology Behavioral Neuroscience Endocrinology Social cognition Face perception Perception medicine Humans Testosterone Child media_common Cued speech Sex Characteristics Endocrine and Autonomic Systems Gender Identity Testosterone (patch) Magnetic Resonance Imaging Chin medicine.anatomical_structure Face Visual Perception Forehead Female Cues Psychology Sex characteristics |
| Zdroj: | Hormones and Behavior. 60:681-690 |
| ISSN: | 0018-506X |
| Popis: | Sex identification of a face is essential for social cognition. Still, perceptual cues indicating the sex of a face, and mechanisms underlying their development, remain poorly understood. Previously, our group described objective age- and sex-related differences in faces of healthy male and female adolescents (12-18 years of age), as derived from magnetic resonance images (MRIs) of the adolescents' heads. In this study, we presented these adolescent faces to 60 female raters to determine which facial features most reliably predicted subjective sex identification. Identification accuracy correlated highly with specific MRI-derived facial features (e.g. broader forehead, chin, jaw, and nose). Facial features that most reliably cued male identity were associated with plasma levels of testosterone (above and beyond age). Perceptible sex differences in face shape are thus associated with specific facial features whose emergence may be, in part, driven by testosterone. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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