Effects of Parental Socio-Economic Conditions on Facial Attractiveness:

Evolutionary Psychology

Susanne Huber¹ 

关键词: facial attractiveness;    early life conditions;    socio-economic status;   

DOI  :  10.1177/147470491401200514

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Socio-economic conditions during early life are known to affect later life outcomes such as health or social success. We investigated whether family socio-economic background may also affect facial attractiveness. We used the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (n = 8434) to analyze the association between an individual's parental socioeconomic background (in terms of father's highest education and parental income) and that individual's facial attractiveness (estimated by rating of high school yearbook photographs when subjects were between 17 and 20 years old), controlling for subjects' sex, year of birth, and father's age at subjects' birth. Subjects' facial attractiveness increased with increasing father's highest educational attainment as well as increasing parental income, with the latter effect being stronger for female subjects as well. We conclude that early socio-economic conditions predict, to some extent, facial attractiveness in young adulthood.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC