Erik Hoel
Erik Hoel

@erikphoel

5 Tweets 2 reads Jul 01, 2024
1. You might remember the finding in evolutionary psychology that women prefer more masculine faces for short-term mating partners, but prefer less masculine faces for long-term mating partners.
Yeah, it doesn't replicate.
2. It's funny because, at least in a way, such much-trumpeted evopsych results are the entire underlying premise of the popular Chad meme.
3. The papers showing this finding have been cited, collectively, thousands of times. Yet recent results published this month in the journal Evolutionary Psychology have failed to replicate that women prefer masculine faces for short-term mating.
4. While women do technically prefer more masculine faces in general, that line... is not steep.
Anyone who is โ€œmewingโ€ solely to improve their Tinder date chances is probably wasting time compared to other interventions, like taking a slightly better photo.

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