Automatic Attention towards Face or Body as a Function of Mating Motivation

Because women's faces and bodies carry different cues of reproductive value, men may attend to different perceptual cues as functions of their long-term versus short-term mating motivations. We tested this hypothesis in three experiments on 135 male and 132 female participants. When influenced...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hui Jing Lu, Lei Chang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2012-01-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491201000113