Women Use Facial Cues to Determine Relationships long-term or short-term and accurately judge men’s testosterone levels
Men whose faces reflected an interest in children were intuitively perceived by woman as candidates for long-term commitments, whereas men whose faces indicated high testosterone levels were determined to be short-term prospects for relationships.”Women are surprisingly accurate in being able to determine interest in children and testosterone levels,” said James Roney, assistant professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who is the lead author of the paper. “Our data suggest that men’s interest in children predicts their long-term mate attractiveness even after we account for how physically attractive the women rated the men,” he said.