caa a22 4500 606232192 CHVBK 20210128101225.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-015-0517-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-015-0517-1 Beholder and Beheld: A Multilevel Model of Perceived Sexual Appeal [Elektronische Daten] [Julia Mackaronis, Donald Strassberg, Jeanne Cundiff, Deanna Cann] When individuals (observers) assess how appealing they find sexual stimuli (targets), which factors matter and to whom? The present study examined how observer and target characteristics interact and impact perceived sexual appeal. Participants were 302 men (206 heterosexual, 96 gay) and 289 women (196 heterosexual, 93 lesbian) between the ages of 18 and 67years, who viewed 34 photographs of targets of their preferred gender and rated each target for sexual appeal, masculinity-femininity, and estimated age. Participants also rated their own masculinity-femininity. A baseline model indicated that roughly 30% of the variance in sexual appeal ratings was at the observer level (between observers) and 70% of the variance was at the target level (within observers). In the final model, five characteristics of the participant observers (gender, sexual orientation, age, race/ethnicity, and self-described masculinity-femininity) and six characteristics of the target photographs (gender, whether the photographs were taken from heterosexual versus gay/lesbian media, race/ethnicity, perceived masculinity-femininity, and estimated age) were independently and interactively related to observer ratings of target sexual appeal. Observers displayed preferences for similar targets in terms of race/ethnicity and masculinity-femininity, while also displaying a general preference for target youth. Variation in the strength of these preferences occurred according to observers' own gender, race/ethnicity, masculinity-femininity, and sexual orientation. Springer Science+Business Media New York (outside the USA), 2015 Sexual appeal nationallicence Sexual orientation nationallicence Masculinity nationallicence Femininity nationallicence Multilevel modeling nationallicence Mackaronis Julia Mental Health Service (S-116), VA Puget Sound Health Care System-Seattle Division, 1660 South Columbian Way, 98108-1597, Seattle, WA, USA aut Strassberg Donald Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA aut Cundiff Jeanne Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA aut Cann Deanna Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA aut Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/8(2015-11-01), 2237-2248 0004-0002 44:8<2237 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0517-1 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/s10508-015-0517-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mackaronis Julia Mental Health Service (S-116), VA Puget Sound Health Care System-Seattle Division, 1660 South Columbian Way, 98108-1597, Seattle, WA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Strassberg Donald Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cundiff Jeanne Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cann Deanna Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/8(2015-11-01), 2237-2248 0004-0002 44:8<2237 2015 44 10508