Two Recent Studies Attempted to Separate the Contributions of Facial

question 45

Multiple Choice

Two recent studies attempted to separate the contributions of facial and bodily information to overall attractiveness or desirability judgments.Both studies documented the same sex-by-mating-strategy interaction effect.Which contention do these results support?

• A)Men glean information about a woman's reproductive value more from her body than from her face.
• B)Men glean information about a woman's immediate fertility more from her body than from her face.
• C)Women signal their sexual receptivity in their face more than in their body.
• D)Women possess bodily cues to long-term mating interest.

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