Why Do Men Grow Facial Hair?

The studies I participated in were from FaceResearch.org. The description of this website was, ‘Participate in short, frequently updated experiments about the traits people find attractive in faces and voices, find out how you compare to others, and learn more about the psychology of attractiveness.’ I was very interested in this section in class, so I decided to do a few studies from this website. The first was one titled Facial Attractiveness, and I clicked on it because it had the most participants (over 77,000). In this experiment, participants were supposed to indicate which face was more attractive (and how much we prefer it) of the two shown. The participants could click on the following options: much more attractive, more attractive, somewhat more attractive, or slightly more attractive. There were abut forty sets of faces. They would show two female faces, one more feminized and one more masculinized. Then, they would show two males faces. In the end, the results were as follows: ‘On average, people preferred the more feminine women 80% of the time and the more feminine men 54% of the time. You preferred feminine women 100% of the time and feminine men 0% of the time.’ I also participated in the study What makes a face attractive? It was similar to the other study in which I was given two faces and had to choose which one was more attractive. The results were as follows: ‘On average, people had a 58% preference strength for the more feminine images. You had a 46%

When the adolescents were rating the different characteristics the results were as followed, boys rated attractiveness higher than the girls and social status wasn’t important to either group. In the vignette portion of the research, when the social status and the attractiveness were displayed on pictures, it showed that both groups found attractiveness important. Social status was only important for the boys when the mate was attractive and the girls found social status was important whether attractive or not. Lastly, as stated by Ha (2009) “self-perceived mate value moderated the relationship between attractiveness and dating desire for both boys and girls.” Also stated be Ha (2009) “adolescents who perceived themselves as having high mate value showed more dating desire if the other person was attractive compared to adolescents who perceived themselves as having a lower mate value.”

Article 1: (Hopper, Huber, Finklea, and Winkielman; 2014) The article Measuring Sexual Dimorphism With a Race-Gender Face Space was about measuring the different degrees of sexual dimorphism within the faces of people who are both male and female and are of the Asian and Caucasian races. The study had contained a combined total of 162 participants. 33% were males, 67% were females where 33% of the study participants were Caucasian and the rest of the 67% of the study participants were Asian. All participants were undergraduate students from the University of California, San Diego. No ages of the participants were recorded during this study. During the first study, the participants took a series of photos where they had to rate the similar face pairs on a 7-point scale with 1 being “Very different” to 7 being “Very Similar” with a program called E-Prime. E-Prime is a psychological computer software program that creates computerized experimental designs, collects data, and does various forms of data analysis in a very simplified technique while providing defined timing to ensure the accuracy of the data that was being recorded. Within the second and last experiment, 24 “morphed” faces were created from the 40 photos from the first experiment. The 40 photos were morphed by using a computer software program called FantaMorph. FantaMorph placed the photos on a 2-D race-gender plane, which eliminated any potential correlation between race and gender. The results from all three

Some people who are bald may get the baldness from another family member which may include Grandparents and Parents who may be bald. So which means you inheriting a look from a family member and if you inherit* baldness from a family member you should be proud that you carry a gene of your family members and you might even pass the baldness gene to your children

The claim about men having a lower voice can be counter argued because, when studying women who breastfeed, those that were breastfeeding at the moment found men with high pitch voices more attractive. This counter argument can be supported by another study of the Hadza women, who are part of a hunter-gatherer society. Obviously, these women were also breastfeeding. In these types of societies, men are the ones that bring home the food and other resources; this may mean that having a higher pitch voice signals that the men are more capable of helping other people. Citation #41 actually talks about how beards can make a man seem more older, more aggressive, but it doesn't necessarily enhance their attractiveness. When a study was done on Europeans from New Zealand and Polynesians from Samoa, there was no relation between attractiveness when comparing a beard to a clean shaven

Hair as a symbol of virility for men and attractiveness for women is found in widely separated cultures throughout the ages and in all parts of the world. It is surprising to find such a difference of meaning between women and

This study consisted of one-thousand and thirty-six individuals; sixty-nine percent were male and thirty-one percent were female. The study lasted throughout fifteen different weeknights and was conducted was by automatically considering anyone over the age of tenty-one, who paid for a drink from a certain bartender between a certain time bracket. A female undergraduate psychology student was employed as a bartender and used in this experiment. She was 5'6" 1/2, 115 pounds, with dark blonde hair, and no makeup. She was rated on a scale from one to seven according to her physical attractiveness by seventy-six general psychology students. Scoring a 3.45 on the scale deemed her as unattractive to most. Her along with three other bartenders walked around to take orders every Friday and

In multiple articles, Cosmopolitan strongly describes that numerous studies indicate that men are naturally attracted by specific female physical categories. With the aid of sociobiology, the magazine also stimulates that makeup is a crucial resource that will draw attention of the male gender. However, this is only to show the newest beauty trends. On the contrary, different studies reveal that wearing make up is part of a cultural norm, historical exercises and class variable (Hasinoff 2009, p.274). The article also clarifies that the Cosmopolitan states numerous arguments that are pro-masculinity and inferior to female gender. It recruits sociobiology experts that explains in numerous articles the basic male behavior, and the magazine finds a justification that women should just accept the action of the male gender, as it is in their biological nature to behave in certain matter, for example, “men’s poor communication skills are restated endlessly in Cosmopolitan and justified as part of their innate nature: in cavemen days” (Hasinoff 2009,

Women in some cultures may hold well-established opinions about what constitutes as the ideal male body. Body mass index (BMI), waist-to-chest ratio (WCR), and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) are considerable features in the rating of male attractiveness for women. The waist-to-hip ratio is an index of the lower body shape. The mass body index is the overall body weight. The waist-to-chest ratio is an index of the upper body shape. The WCR is the main determinant and accounts for the greatest amount of variance in attractiveness ratings. Research results from a sociocultural perspective have determined that lower body shape may be relatively insignificant when both men and women judge male bodies for attractiveness; women are more concerned with the

It may be something that says "male" more than a beard. Usually begins a teenage male to grow facial hair between the ages of 14 and 16. Some young men have trouble growing facial hair, which can affect their self-esteem. Unfortunately, the ability to grow facial hair depends largely on your genetics. However, there are some techniques that you can use in your daily life that may help in the growth of facial hair.

It is stated in chapter 6, “Although it is not uncommon to hear people muse about inner beauty being the only thing that really counts, research suggests that outer beauty, our physical attractiveness, plays an influential role in determining responses for a broad range of interpersonal encounters.” Some of these physical aspect that affect our emotions are physical attractiveness, scent, facial features, and clothing. These are mainly self explanatory, but one can see how these could play a role in how we feel. Physical attractiveness is how attractive we are physically, particularly the body. Facial Features are the features of a face. How does a face look, does it have small eyes or big eyes? Does it have a big nose or small nose? Things along the lines of this. One particular issue with these, is that they are not always easy to change like clothing and scent. It was stated in the reading, that “Two physical features of men preferred by women for short-term or casual sexual relationships were features of masculinity in the face—thicker eyebrows, smaller eyes, thinner lips, and a squarer jaw, as in Figure 6-1—and a high shoulder-to-waist ratio” (Knapp, Hall, & Horgan, 2014, p. 158). It was also found that for women, the waist-to-hip ratio plays a significant role in attractiveness, “The waist-to-hip ratio of women plays an important role in men’s judgments of women’s physical attractiveness” (Knapp,

The symbolism of female hair and men’s react to it greatly vary between cultures, another reason why it is impossible to imply there is a cross-cultural masculine psychology. Anthropologists have also found less of an expectation for women to remove their body hair in African-American communities in comparison to white communities (Toerien, 342). However, just focusing on white American culture, female hair removal primarily began at the beginning of the 20th century, starting around 1915 and slowly escalating as hemlines became shorter. By the late 1970s, most women in America were shaving their body hair, especially young women. Like with body shape, body hair has become a status symbol similar to fat: the more body hair a woman has, the more likely she is to be considered to a) be part of a lower socioeconomic status and b) lack the discipline necessary to remove their body hair. In addition to these cultural markers, men’s adverse reaction to body hair likely comes from body hair being the most “ubiquitous mass media image of the depilated feminine body” (Toerien, 334). Men react negatively to women having body hair because it goes against their idea of femininity and removes one of the strongest markers of the difference between men and women in our culture. Therefore, Grey has a point in saying the expectation of

Literature on the topic of attractiveness is very extensive. The human face is something that catches every ones attention and more over the scientists as well the psychologists are interested in analyzing the ability of humans to extract information of the others. Several factors and features are associated with attractiveness. Some examples include facial symmetry, skin color, facial traits, clear skin and health of facial skin. It is hypothesized that facial symmetry is an important factors in measuring physical attractiveness. Different features may be perceived as attractive by different people.

As the aforementioned study showed societal expectations concerning appearance can, and often do, affect men just as much as they do women (Chaiton, 2009). Our society pushes men to be big, muscular and manly. To certain degree the more muscular a man is the more attractive he generally is within society. A study from an international journal regarding social behavior and personality concluded that the attractiveness of a man is more important in determining social desirability than the age of the man in question (Perlini, 2001). Comparatively the results of these two studies add up to say that the attractiveness of a man is one of the main factors in determining societal desirability and one of the biggest factors in being attractive is being muscular or strong. This puts a lot of pressure on males to be concerned

Somatic attractiveness is a broad term that also relates to feminine beauty, so in order to differentiate the two, a definitive line between both masculine and feminine physical appeal must be drawn. What exactly determines masculine good looks? Frederick et. al. observe that society favors, “Media representations of the ideal male body as muscular.” But a study on feminine beauty finds a different standard for women: “Men find female figures with low [Waist-to-hip ratio] more attractive, healthier, and of greater reproductive value than figures with a higher WHR” (Singh). These key differences in aesthetic perceptions distinguish masculine physical qualities