Face preferences affect a diverse range of critical social outcomes, from mate choices and
decisions about platonic relationships to hiring decisions and decisions about social …

Studies on mate preferences have demonstrated that women's perception of male
attractiveness is sensitive to men's facial masculinity, and that women's preferences for facial …

We have made an attempt at demonstrating the effect of parental influence, particularly
sexual imprinting, on human mate choice. Extending our earlier studies that focused on …

Contextual cues of genetic relatedness to familiar individuals, such as cosocialization and
maternal–perinatal association, modulate prosocial and inbreeding-avoidance behaviors …

Preferences for partners with symmetric and sex-typical faces are well documented and
considered evidence for the good-genes theory of mate choice. However, it is unclear …

Empirical studies present considerably consistent data about human mate choice, from
which we may infer that it tends to be homogamous for various traits. However, different …

Several studies have found that individuals select partners who resemble their parents. The
evidence for this effect seems stronger in relation to opposite-sex than same-sex parents …

Body mass index (BMI) and its facial correlates influence a range of perceptions including
masculinity and attractiveness. BMI conflates body fat and muscle which are sexually …

Kin recognition is an essential component of kin-directed adaptive behavior. Consequently,
potential mechanisms of kin recognition, such as learning a kin phenotype from family …

Previous studies have indicated homogamy in partner preferences among gay and bisexual
men. Individuals on Blued (the most popular gay dating app in China) could identify their …