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Title:	Facial Masculinity: How the Choice of Measurement Method Enables to Detect Its Influence on Behaviour
Author:	Sánchez-Pagés, Santiago; Rodríguez Ruiz, Claudia; Turiegano, Enrique
Other authors:	Universitat de Barcelona
Abstract:	Recent research has explored the relationship between facial masculinity, human male behaviour and males' perceived features (i.e. attractiveness). The methods of measurement of facial masculinity employed in the literature are quite diverse. In the present paper, we use several methods of measuring facial masculinity to study the effect of this feature on risk attitudes and trustworthiness. We employ two strategic interactions to measure these two traits, a first-price auction and a trust game. We find that facial width-to-height ratio is the best predictor of trustworthiness, and that measures of masculinity which use Geometric Morphometrics are the best suited to link masculinity and bidding behaviour. However, we observe that the link between masculinity and bidding in the first-price auction might be driven by competitiveness and not by risk aversion only. Finally, we test the relationship between facial measures of masculinity and perceived masculinity. As a conclusion, we suggest that researchers in the field should measure masculinity using one of these methods in order to obtain comparable results. We also encourage researchers to revise the existing literature on this topic following these measurement methods.
Subject(s):	-Masculinitat -Expressió facial -Percepció social -Psicologia mèdica -Masculinity -Facial expressio -Social perception -Medical psychology
Rights:	cc-by (c) Sánchez-Pagés, Santiago et al., 2014 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es
Document type:	Article Article - Published version
Published by:	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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