Daya tarik fisik: Perbedaan antara revisi

[[FileBerkas:Jessica Alba Face Proportions.png|thumbjmpl|300px|rightka|Sebuah penelitian di [[University of Toronto]] menemukan bahwa proporsi wajah [[Jessica Alba]] mendekati [[Rata-rata|rata-rata profil kebanyakan wanita]].]]

Dalam banyak kasus, manusia secara tidak sadar mengaitkan karakteristik positif, seperti kecerdasan dan kejujuran, dengan orang yang menarik secara fisik.<ref name="What is beautiful is good">{{cite journal | vauthors = Dion K, Berscheid E, Walster E | title = What is beautiful is good | url = https://archive.org/details/sim_journal-of-personality-and-social-psychology_1972-12_24_3/page/285 | journal = Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | volume = 24 | issue = 3 | pages = 285–90 | date = December 1972 | pmid = 4655540 | doi = 10.1037/h0033731 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.521.9955 }}</ref> Dari penelitian yang dilakukan di Amerika Serikat dan Inggris, ditemukan bahwa asosiasi antara kecerdasan dan daya tarik fisik lebih kuat pada pria daripada wanita.<ref name="Kanazawa">{{cite journal | last = Kanazawa | first = Satoshi | name-list-style = vanc | year = 2011 | title = Intelligence and physical attractiveness | journal = [[Intelligence (journal)|Intelligence]] | volume = 39 | issue = 1| pages = 7–14 | doi=10.1016/j.intell.2010.11.003}}</ref> Psikolog evolusioner telah mencoba menjawab mengapa individu yang lebih menarik secara fisik juga, rata-rata, harusjuga dianggap lebih cerdas, dan telah mengemukakan gagasan bahwa kecerdasan umum dan daya tarik fisik mungkin merupakan indikator kebugaran genetik yang mendasarinya.<ref name="Kanazawa" /> Karakteristik fisik seseorang dapat memberi sinyal pada kesuburan dan kesehatan,<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Stephen ID, Tan KW | year = 2015 | chapter = Healthy body, healthy face? Evolutionary approaches to health perception. | veditors = Sheppard E, Haque S | title = Culture and Cognition: A Collection of Critical Essays. | publisher = Peter Lang International Publishers }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Brown WM, Price ME, Kang J, Pound N, Zhao Y, Yu H | title = Fluctuating asymmetry and preferences for sex-typical bodily characteristics | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 105 | issue = 35 | pages = 12938–43 | date = September 2008 | pmid = 18711125 | pmc = 2529114 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.0710420105 | bibcode = 2008PNAS..10512938B | doi-access = free }}</ref> studi pemodelan statistik menunjukkan bahwa variabel bentuk wajah mencerminkan aspek kesehatan fisiologis, termasuk lemak tubuh dan tekanan darah, juga memengaruhi persepsi pengamat mengenai kesehatan seseorang.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Stephen ID, Hiew V, Coetzee V, Tiddeman BP, Perrett DI | title = Facial Shape Analysis Identifies Valid Cues to Aspects of Physiological Health in Caucasian, Asian, and African Populations | language = en | journal = Frontiers in Psychology | volume = 8 | pages = 1883 | date = 2017 | pmid = 29163270 | pmc = 5670498 | doi = 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01883 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Faktor-faktor ini akan meningkatkan keberhasilan reproduksi, memajukan representasi gen seseorang dalam populasi.<ref name="Barelds-Dijkstra_2008">{{cite journal | vauthors = Barelds-Dijkstra P, Barelds DP | title = Positive illusions about one's partner's physical attractiveness | journal = Body Image | volume = 5 | issue = 1 | pages = 99–108 | date = March 2008 | pmid = 18405868 | doi = 10.1016/j.bodyim.2007.07.004 }}</ref>

Laki-laki heteroseksual, rata-rata, cenderung tertarik pada wanita yang memiliki penampilan muda dan menunjukkan ciri-ciri seperti wajah simetris,<ref name=twsO66f2>{{cite news | first = Joanna | last = Briscoe | name-list-style = vanc |title= Haven't I seen you somewhere before? |newspaper= The Guardian |quote= Evolutionary psychologists claim there is an underlying standard script for beauty – a foundation for what we find appealing that transcends culture and ethnicity. There are various absolutes. For instance, to judge someone beautiful, the eye requires symmetry |date= January 17, 2004 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2004/jan/17/weekend7.weekend2 |access-date= July 15, 2011 |location=London}}</ref> payudara berisi, bibir berisi, dan rasio pinggang-pinggul rendah.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Fisher|first=Maryanne L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c2IwDwAAQBAJ&q=full+breasts,+full+lips,+and+a+low+waist-hip+ratio&pg=PT996|title=The Oxford Handbook of Women and Competition|date=2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-937639-1|page=603|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Nettle_2002">{{cite journal | vauthors = Nettle D | title = Women's height, reproductive success and the evolution of sexual dimorphism in modern humans | journal = Proceedings. Biological Sciences | volume = 269 | issue = 1503 | pages = 1919–23 | date = September 2002 | pmid = 12350254 | pmc = 1691114 | doi = 10.1098/rspb.2002.2111 | url = http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/daniel.nettle/procroysoc.pdf }}</ref> Wanita heteroseksual, rata-rata cenderung tertarik pada pria yang lebih tinggi dari mereka dan yang menunjukkan tingkat simetri wajah yang tinggi, dimorfisme wajah maskulin, kekuatan tubuh bagian atas, bahu lebar, pinggang yang relatif sempit, dan batang tubuh berbentuk V.<ref name=Glassenberg10>{{cite journal | vauthors = Glassenberg AN, Feinberg DR, Jones BC, Little AC, Debruine LM | title = Sex-dimorphic face shape preference in heterosexual and homosexual men and women | url = https://archive.org/details/sim_archives-of-sexual-behavior_2010-12_39_6/page/1289 | journal = Archives of Sexual Behavior | volume = 39 | issue = 6 | pages = 1289–96 | date = December 2010 | pmid = 19830539 | doi = 10.1007/s10508-009-9559-6 | s2cid = 25066289 }}</ref><ref name="Perrett98">{{cite journal | vauthors = Perrett DI, Lee KJ, Penton-Voak I, Rowland D, Yoshikawa S, Burt DM, Henzi SP, Castles DL, Akamatsu S | title = Effects of sexual dimorphism on facial attractiveness | journal = Nature | volume = 394 | issue = 6696 | pages = 884–87 | date = August 1998 | pmid = 9732869 | doi = 10.1038/29772 | bibcode = 1998Natur.394..884P | s2cid = 204999982 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Sell A, Lukazsweski AW, Townsley M | title = Cues of upper body strength account for most of the variance in men's bodily attractiveness | journal = Proceedings. Biological Sciences | volume = 284 | issue = 1869 | pages = 20171819 | date = December 2017 | pmid = 29237852 | pmc = 5745404 | doi = 10.1098/rspb.2017.1819 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Mautz BS, Wong BB, Peters RA, Jennions MD | title = Penis size interacts with body shape and height to influence male attractiveness | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 110 | issue = 17 | pages = 6925–30 | date = April 2013 | pmid = 23569234 | pmc = 3637716 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.1219361110 | bibcode = 2013PNAS..110.6925M | doi-access = free }}</ref>