Das Hormon Testosteron beeinflusste die allgemeine Wahrnehmung von Frauen durch Männer. Unter dem Einfluss von Testosteron bewerteten Männer die Attraktivität von Frauen höher und berichteten von einer stärkeren Bereitschaft, mit ihnen auszugehen. Dieser Effekt trat unabhängig davon auf, ob die Frauen der Gruppe mit hoher oder niedriger Attraktivität angehörten.
Testosterone alters how men respond to unfairness against women
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I’ve linked to the news release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306453025003142
Highlights
• Female recipients’ facial attractiveness positively affects men’s altruistic punishment behavior.
• Exogenous testosterone administration increased men’s frequency of altruistic punishment behavior.
• Testosterone increased single heterosexual men’s ratings of women’s facial attractiveness.
• Testosterone increased single heterosexual men’s willingness to date.
From the linked article:
New research suggests that a man’s hormone levels may alter how he responds to social injustice directed at women. The study indicates that testosterone influences whether men punish those who treat women unfairly, though the effect depends on the woman’s physical appearance. These findings appeared in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology.
The administration of testosterone altered these dynamics in specific ways. **First, the hormone affected the men’s general perception of the women. Under the influence of testosterone, participants gave higher attractiveness ratings to the women and reported a stronger willingness to date them**.
**This effect occurred regardless of whether the women were in the high or low attractiveness groups**. It suggests that testosterone heightens mating motivation generally. It makes men more receptive to potential romantic interest across the board.
Hormones influence attraction, unsurprising. Which is why low hormones affect libido
„stronger willingness to „date“ them…“
>This effect occurred regardless of whether the woman were in the high or low attractiveness groups
Seeking: women for study participation. You will be sorted according to how hot or ugly you are. No pay.
One thing to note is that this showed that increasing someone’s testosterone caused these changes, not that just higher testosterone caused them period
This is an important distinction because someone with X level and someone with X+5 in their normal state may have the same baseline but going from X to X+5 and X+5 to X+10 sees what the study saw
Pretty sure it doesn’t get more null-hypothesis than this.