Frauen empfinden größere Eifersucht, wenn ihre romantischen Rivalen sehr weibliche Gesichter haben. Dieses Muster war auch bei lesbischen Teilnehmern vorhanden, allerdings war die Stärke des Zusammenhangs deutlich schwächer.
Women experience greater jealousy when their romantic rivals have highly feminine faces
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>A [study](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-27643-0) published in Scientific Reports found that heterosexual women report greater jealousy when imagining women with more feminine faces flirting with their romantic partner. This pattern was also present in lesbian participants, though the strength of the association was significantly weaker.
>Facial femininity is the degree to which a person’s facial features display traits that are typically associated with female faces. These traits include larger eyes, fuller lips, a smaller jaw and chin, higher eyebrows, and smoother facial contours. Facial femininity is influenced by biological factors such as sex hormones, especially estrogen, during development.
>Researchers most often study facial femininity in the context of evolutionary psychology and social perception. In general, women with feminine faces tend to be perceived as more attractive, more youthful, and healthier. Studies have also indicated that facial femininity can influence social judgments—women with highly feminine faces tend to be perceived as warmer, kinder, and more trustworthy.
>Study author Junzhi Dong and his colleagues note that evolutionary theory suggests individuals displaying cues of higher “mate value” (e.g., those who are physically more attractive) represent a greater threat to romantic relationships and, consequently, elicit greater jealousy.
Does „highly feminine“ just mean they’re pretty?
As someone who has worked behind the scenes in corporate US and been involved in tons of employee investigations, some of the women can be down right mean. Like really nasty and mean to one another.
The guys do stupid things and there may have been a fight here and there, but it was usually porn at work kind of drama. The women would go for the soul at the jump when it was women on women issues. Like saying nasty things about husbands or even kids.
I recall one women told the other, ‚your daughter looks like she fell down a hill of gravel and then was run over by the dump truck working the site.‘ I guess that girl was a teen and having a hell of time with acne… Like damn… Just mean.
I have a pretty masculine face which I have thought about feminizing a bit. I never liked my cleft chin or the „butt chin“ is what I call it. I’m actually thinking about getting a filler put in to get rid of it. I can’t believe there guys getting surgery to have one.