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Open AccessMotivations to Enhance One’s Facial Hair: Affiliation, Rivalry, and Stress
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 having better parenting skills. ...
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Open AccessIndividual Differences in How Desirable People Think They Are as a Mate
Mate value is an important concept in mate choice research although its operationalization and understanding are limited. Here, we reviewed and evaluated previously established conceptual and methodological ap...
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Open AccessMen’s Facial Hair Preferences Reflect Facial Hair Impression Management Functions Across Contexts and Men Know It
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 perception of beardedness, only a...
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Open Access“It’s All in Your Head”: Personality Traits and Gaslighting Tactics in Intimate Relationships
Gaslighting is a form of psychological/emotional abuse inflicted upon an intimate partner that includes manipulative tactics such as misdirection, denial, lying, and contradiction – all to destabilize the vict...
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Open AccessBeing More Educated and Earning More Increases Romantic Interest: Data from 1.8 M Online Daters from 24 Nations
How humans choose their mates is a central feature of adult life and an area of considerable disagreement among relationship researchers. However, few studies have examined mate choice (instead of mate prefere...
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Open AccessVariation in depressive symptom trajectories in a large sample of couples
The occurrence of depression is influenced by social relationships, however, most studies focus on individuals, not couples. We aimed to study how depressive symptoms of couples evolve over time and determine,...
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Open AccessMating Decisions in the Absence of Physical Attraction
Mates high in physical attractiveness are in short supply, which means that not all people are able to find mates who are sufficiently attractive. Threshold models of mate preferences suggest that when physica...
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Quantifying Common Criticisms of Evolutionary Psychology
In a sample of academics (N = 111), we quantified the dimensions underlying criticisms of evolutionary psychology in relation to criticisms of its parent fields (i.e., general psychology and evolutionary biology)...
