Men's facial hair preferences reflect facial hair impression management functions across contexts and men know it

Ł Jach, M Moroń, PK Jonason - Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2023 - Springer
Men with distinct facial hair are perceived as more aggressive, dominant, older, and more
formidable, mostly by other men. However, despite considerable interest in the social …

Beards increase the speed, accuracy, and explicit judgments of facial threat

BJW Dixson, CL Barkhuizen, BM Craig - Adaptive Human Behavior and …, 2021 - Springer
Objectives To test whether intra-sexual selection has influenced perceptions of male facial
hair. We predicted that beards would increase the speed and accuracy of perceptions of …

Perceptions of beardedness for attractiveness, masculinity, fighting ability, and Partner Quality: A cross-cultural examination among hispanic and Iranian women

R Garza, R Afhami, J Mora, F Pazhoohi - Adaptive Human Behavior and …, 2023 - Springer
Men's beardedness is a sexually dimorphic trait that has played a role in both inter-and intra-
sexual selection. It has been suggested that women may prefer bearded men because it …

[HTML][HTML] Perceptions of facial trustworthiness and dominance modulate early neural responses to male facial sexual dimorphism

BJW Dixson, NL Nelson, E Moses, AJ Lee… - Evolution and Human …, 2024 - Elsevier
Sexual selection may have shaped the evolution of cognitive mechanisms to assess
dominance and trustworthiness among anonymous conspecifics. We tested the hypothesis …

Motivations to Enhance One's Facial Hair: Affiliation, Rivalry, and Stress

M Moroń, Ł Jach, PK Jonason - Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2024 - Springer
Facial hair is a sexually dimorphic trait with potential evolutionary and sociocultural
functions. Bearded men are perceived as dominant, aggressive, and masculine, but also as …

Men's Perceptions of Beardedness in a Hispanic and Iranian Sample: The Role of Intrasexual Competition on Evaluations of Attractiveness, Masculinity, and Fighting …

R Garza, R Afhami, F Pazhoohi - Evolutionary Psychological Science, 2024 - Springer
Facial hair is suggested to have evolved partly through female mate choice, enhancing
men's attractiveness, and is also linked to forms of intrasexual competition, including …

Response to commentaries: A socioevolutionary approach to self-presentation modification

AC Davis, S Arnocky - Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2022 - Springer
We would like to thank the commentators for their thoughtprovoking responses to our target
article on the evolution of visual appearance enhancement behavior (Davis & Arnocky …

[LIBRO][B] In Defense of the World's Most Despised Species: Why we love some species but hate most, and why it matters

E Small - 2023 - books.google.com
Some animals and plants injure or kill millions of people annually, others cause trillions of
dollars in property damage and loss. Such harmful species are understandably hated …

Toupee or not toupee?: Cranial hair and perceptions of men's attractiveness, personality, and other evolutionary relevant traits

TJ Wade, ML Fisher, RL Burch - Evolutionary Psychological Science, 2021 - Springer
The question of whether or not cranial hair affects perceptions of attractiveness, personality,
career success, and other traits related to fitness for men in two populations was …

Public Perceptions About Police With Beards

D Hale - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Across the country, law enforcement administrators have sought solutions to strengthen
police–citizen relationships and to increase morale in their departments. Some …