Skip to main content

Research publications repository

    • čeština
    • English
  • English 
    • čeština
    • English
  • Login
View Item 
  •   CU Research Publications Repository
  • Fakulty
  • Faculty of Science
  • View Item
  • CU Research Publications Repository
  • Fakulty
  • Faculty of Science
  • View Item
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

Africans and Europeans differ in their facial perception of dominance and sex-typicality: A multidimensional Bayesian approach

original article
Creative Commons License IconCreative Commons BY Icon
published version
  • no other version
Thumbnail
File can be accessed only after logging in.Login to access
Author
Fiala, VojtěchORCiD Profile - 0000-0002-0148-5092WoS Profile - HGU-7624-2022Scopus Profile - 57225430958
Tureček, PetrORCiD Profile - 0000-0003-2118-9909WoS Profile - G-2386-2019Scopus Profile - 57192984203
Akoko, Robert Mbe
Pokorný, ŠimonORCiD Profile - 0000-0001-5204-1048WoS Profile - DMZ-0493-2022Scopus Profile - 57205676157
Kleisner, KarelORCiD Profile - 0000-0002-3277-8365WoS Profile - M-2718-2017Scopus Profile - 8149011700

Show other authors

Publication date
2022
Published in
Scientific Reports
Volume / Issue
12 (1)
ISBN / ISSN
ISSN: 2045-2322
Metadata
Show full item record
Collections
  • Center for Theoretical Study
  • Faculty of Science

This publication has a published version with DOI 10.1038/s41598-022-10646-6

Abstract
Biosocial impact of facial dominance and sex-typicality is well-evidenced in various human groups. It remains unclear, though, whether perceived sex-typicality and dominance can be consistently predicted from sexually dimorphic facial features across populations. Using a combination of multidimensional Bayesian approach and geometric morphometrics, we explored associations between perceived dominance, perceived sex-typicality, measured sexual shape dimorphism, and skin colour in a European and an African population. Unlike previous studies, we investigated the effect of facial variation due to shape separately from variation due to visual cues not related to shape in natural nonmanipulated stimuli. In men, perceived masculinity was associated with perceived dominance in both populations. In European women higher perceived femininity was, surprisingly, likewise positively associated with perceived dominance. Both shape and non-shape components participate in the constitution of facial sex-typicality and dominance. Skin colour predicted perceived sex-typicality in Africans but not in Europeans. Members of each population probably use different cues to assess sex-typicality and dominance. Using our methods, we found no universal sexually dimorphic scale predicting human perception of sex-typicality and dominance. Unidimensional understanding of sex-typicality thus seems problematic and should be applied with cautions when studying perceived sex-typicality and its correlates.
Keywords
to-height ratio, perceived dominance, physical strength, face shape, skin color, attractiveness, testosterone, masculinity, aggression, dimorphism
Permanent link
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14178/1933
Show publication in other systems
WOS:000787775900079
SCOPUS:2-s2.0-85128901793
PUBMED:35474334
License

Full text of this result is licensed under: Creative Commons Uveďte původ 4.0 International

Show license terms

xmlui.dri2xhtml.METS-1.0.item-publication-version-

DSpace software copyright © 2002-2016  DuraSpace
Contact Us | Send Feedback
Theme by 
Atmire NV
 

 

About Repository

About This RepositoryResearch outputs typologyRequired metadataDisclaimerCC Linceses

Browse

All of DSpaceCommunities & CollectionsWorkplacesBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionWorkplacesBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

DSpace software copyright © 2002-2016  DuraSpace
Contact Us | Send Feedback
Theme by 
Atmire NV