Facial Attractiveness Preferences: a possible mechanism for understanding the differential reproduction of women with and without androphilic sons

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dc.contributor.authorParker, Jessica L.
dc.contributor.supervisorVasey, Paul L.
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-03T20:13:20Z
dc.date.available2014-10-03T20:13:20Z
dc.date.issued2014-10-03
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractThe Sexually Antagonistic Gene Hypothesis (SAGH) holds that a gene can be reproductively detrimental to one sex, but be selected for so long as it is reproductively beneficial to the other sex. Consistent with this, research indicates that the female relatives of androphilic males exhibit elevated reproduction compared to those without androphilic male relatives. This thesis addresses whether the mating psychology of women with androphilic sons differs from that of women with no androphilic sons. If differences in preferences for certain male facial features exist, this might explain why the female kin of male androphiles produce more offspring compared to the female kin of male gynephiles. I found that women with and without androphilic sons did not differ in their preferences for a variety of male facial features, indicating that differences in mating psychology not accounting for the differential reproduction of these two groups of women.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Lethbridge Public Interest Research Groupen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/3507
dc.language.isoen_CAen_US
dc.proquest.subject0621en_US
dc.proquest.subject0451
dc.proquest.subject0733
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Psychology
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Psychologyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)
dc.subjectfemale facial preferencesen_US
dc.subjectSexually Antagonistic Gene Hypothesisen_US
dc.subjectmale androphiliaen_US
dc.subjectfacial masculinityen_US
dc.subjectmating psychologyen_US
dc.titleFacial Attractiveness Preferences: a possible mechanism for understanding the differential reproduction of women with and without androphilic sonsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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