No Compelling Evidence that Preferences for Facial Masculinity Track Changes in Women’s Hormonal Status
这项大型纵向研究（584名女性）发现，女性对男性面部阳刚特征的偏好与唾液类固醇激素水平变化无关，口服避孕药也未降低该偏好，但女性普遍更喜欢阳刚化的男性面孔，尤其在短期关系中。
Although widely cited as strong evidence that sexual selection has shaped human facial-attractiveness judgments, findings suggesting that women's preferences for masculine characteristics in men's faces are related to women's hormonal status are equivocal and controversial. Consequently, we conducted the largest-ever longitudinal study of the hormonal correlates of women's preferences for facial masculinity ( N = 584). Analyses showed no compelling evidence that preferences for facial masculinity were related to changes in women's salivary steroid hormone levels. Furthermore, both within-subjects and between-subjects comparisons showed no evidence that oral contraceptive use decreased masculinity preferences. However, women generally preferred masculinized over feminized versions of men's faces, particularly when assessing men's attractiveness for short-term, rather than long-term, relationships. Our results do not support the hypothesized link between women's preferences for facial masculinity and their hormonal status.