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dc.contributor.authorBorras Guevara, Martha Lucia
dc.contributor.authorBatres, Carlota
dc.contributor.authorPerrett, David Ian
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-05T12:30:02Z
dc.date.available2019-08-05T12:30:02Z
dc.date.issued2019-09-15
dc.identifier.citationBorras Guevara , M L , Batres , C & Perrett , D I 2019 , ' Fear of violence amongst Colombian women is associated with reduced preferences for high-BMI men ' , Human Nature , vol. 30 , 341–369 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-019-09350-8en
dc.identifier.issn1045-6767
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 258216342
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: cc6f8a80-1931-4a71-ba83-c7286444568e
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85070067988
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-6025-0939/work/64360902
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000481780100005
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/18247
dc.descriptionFunding: This work was supported in part by Colciencias (Call 646), St Leonard's College, University of St Andrews, Scotland and The Russell Trust Postgraduate Award (Call: May 2016).en
dc.description.abstractRecent studies reveal that violence significantly contributes to explaining individual’s facial preferences. Women who feel at higher risk of violence prefer less-masculine male faces. Given the importance of violence, we explore its influence on people’s preferences for a different physical trait. Masculinity correlates positively with male strength and weight or body mass index (BMI). In fact, masculinity and BMI tend to load on the same component of trait perception. Therefore we predicted that individuals’ perceptions of danger from violence will relate to preferences for facial cues to low-BMI. In two studies in Colombia, men and women from Bogota, Medellin, and surrounding communities were shown pairs of faces transformed to epitomize the shape correlates of men with high or low-BMI. The images were of European, Salvadoran, or Colombian men. Participants were asked to choose the face they considered most attractive. Subsequently, participants answered a survey about their health (e.g., frequency of illnesses the past year), media access (e.g., frequency of Internet use), education level (e.g., graduating from high school), and experiences/perceptions of violence in study 1 and about specific types of violence (public and domestic) in study 2. Results from both studies showed that women who experienced/perceived higher levels of violence preferred faces of low-BMI Salvadoran men. Preferences for low-BMI facial cues were significantly explained by violence (public or domestic), even after controlling for all other variables (including age, education, health, and media access). These results may reflect women’s strategy to avoid male partners capable of inflicting harm.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofHuman Natureen
dc.rightsCopyright © The Author(s) 2019. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.en
dc.subjectViolenceen
dc.subjectBMIen
dc.subjectMate choiceen
dc.subjectIntrasexual competitionen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subjectSDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutionsen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.titleFear of violence amongst Colombian women is associated with reduced preferences for high-BMI menen
dc.typeJournal articleen
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dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciencesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolutionen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-019-09350-8
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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