caa a22 4500 606231145 CHVBK 20210128101218.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-015-0496-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-015-0496-2 Prokop Pavol Department of Biology, Faculty of Education, Trnava University, Priemyselná 4, 918 43, Trnava, Slovakia aut The Putative Son's Attractiveness Alters the Perceived Attractiveness of the Putative Father [Elektronische Daten] [Pavol Prokop] A body of literature has investigated female mate choice in the pre-mating context (pre-mating sexual selection). Humans, however, are long-living mammals forming pair-bonds which sequentially produce offspring. Post-mating evaluations of a partner's attractiveness may thus significantly influence the reproductive success of men and women. Itested herein the theory that the attractiveness of putative sons provides extra information about the genetic quality of fathers, thereby influencing fathers' attractiveness across three studies. As predicted, facially attractive boys were more frequently attributed to attractive putative fathers and vice versa (Study 1). Furthermore, priming with an attractive putative son increased the attractiveness of the putative father with the reverse being true for unattractive putative sons. When putative fathers were presented as stepfathers, the effect of the boy's attractiveness on the stepfather's attractiveness was lower and less consistent (Study 2). This suggests that the presence of an attractive boy has the strongest effect on the perceived attractiveness of putative fathers rather than on non-fathers. The generalized effect of priming with beautiful non-human objects also exists, but its effect is much weaker compared with the effects of putative biological sons (Study 3). Overall, this study highlighted the importance of post-mating sexual selection in humans and suggests that the heritable attractive traits of men are also evaluated by females after mating and/or may be used by females in mate poaching. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Mate choice nationallicence Physical attractiveness nationallicence Priming nationallicence Post-mating sexual selection nationallicence Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/6(2015-08-01), 1713-1721 0004-0002 44:6<1713 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0496-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0496-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Prokop Pavol Department of Biology, Faculty of Education, Trnava University, Priemyselná 4, 918 43, Trnava, Slovakia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/6(2015-08-01), 1713-1721 0004-0002 44:6<1713 2015 44 10508