Human mate-choice copying is domain-general social learning

Abstract Women appear to copy other women’s preferences for men’s faces. This ‘mate-choice copying’ is often taken as evidence of psychological adaptations for processing social information related to mate choice, for which facial information is assumed to be particularly salient. No experiment, how...

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Autores principales:	Sally E. Street, Thomas J. H. Morgan, Alex Thornton, Gillian R. Brown, Kevin N. Laland, Catharine P. Cross
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2018
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:46aeca619b7e44e7896d5236d964f3aa2021-12-02T15:08:14ZHuman mate-choice copying is domain-general social learning10.1038/s41598-018-19770-82045-2322https://doaj.org/article/46aeca619b7e44e7896d5236d964f3aa2018-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19770-8https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Women appear to copy other women’s preferences for men’s faces. This ‘mate-choice copying’ is often taken as evidence of psychological adaptations for processing social information related to mate choice, for which facial information is assumed to be particularly salient. No experiment, however, has directly investigated whether women preferentially copy each other’s face preferences more than other preferences. Further, because prior experimental studies used artificial social information, the effect of real social information on attractiveness preferences is unknown. We collected attractiveness ratings of pictures of men’s faces, men’s hands, and abstract art given by heterosexual women, before and after they saw genuine social information gathered in real time from their peers. Ratings of faces were influenced by social information, but no more or less than were images of hands and abstract art. Our results suggest that evidence for domain-specific social learning mechanisms in humans is weaker than previously suggested.Sally E. StreetThomas J. H. MorganAlex ThorntonGillian R. BrownKevin N. LalandCatharine P. CrossNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2018)
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description	Abstract Women appear to copy other women’s preferences for men’s faces. This ‘mate-choice copying’ is often taken as evidence of psychological adaptations for processing social information related to mate choice, for which facial information is assumed to be particularly salient. No experiment, however, has directly investigated whether women preferentially copy each other’s face preferences more than other preferences. Further, because prior experimental studies used artificial social information, the effect of real social information on attractiveness preferences is unknown. We collected attractiveness ratings of pictures of men’s faces, men’s hands, and abstract art given by heterosexual women, before and after they saw genuine social information gathered in real time from their peers. Ratings of faces were influenced by social information, but no more or less than were images of hands and abstract art. Our results suggest that evidence for domain-specific social learning mechanisms in humans is weaker than previously suggested.
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author	Sally E. Street Thomas J. H. Morgan Alex Thornton Gillian R. Brown Kevin N. Laland Catharine P. Cross
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title	Human mate-choice copying is domain-general social learning
title_short	Human mate-choice copying is domain-general social learning
title_full	Human mate-choice copying is domain-general social learning
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Human mate-choice copying is domain-general social learning

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