Marina L Butovskaya, Victoria V Rostovstseva, Anna A Mezentseva, Alexander Kavina, Muhammad Rizwan, Yuanyuan Shi, Vítězslav Vilimek, Albert Davletshin
Previous research has demonstrated that Maasai and Europeans tend to align in their ratings of the physical strength and aggressiveness of Maasai male faces, calibrated to hand grip strength (HGS). However, perceptions of attractiveness of these faces differed among populations. In this study, three morphs of young Maasai men created by means of geometric morphometrics, and depicting the average sample and two extrema (± 4 SD of HGS), were assessed by men and women from Tanzania, Czech Republic, Russia, Pakistan, China, and Mexico (total sample = 1540)...
March 11, 2024: Scientific Reports