e also more inclined to multiple short-term mating and less discriminating in their choice than females, whereas women are more interested in few long-term bonds and are more selective than males. It is noteworthy that these differences are relative and not absolute. Indeed, males are selective in choosing partners but females are even more selective. Males and females thus have different aspirations in mate-selection. Females, when interested in a long-term partner, look for males who are able to invest in their offspring and are willing to become involved in long-term relationships, i.e. males who are good competitors, reliable and friendly, those males who also have to be successful in male-male competition and strive for dominance. Males on the other hand can enhance their reproductive success either through philandering, or by reproducing with females who possess "good genes" and additional investing in the offspring. Possessing "good genes" thus would be equivalent to "being attractive" for males. Indeed males fixate female bodies more often whereas females fixate male bodies less often. The information females are looking for in males does not seem to lie in their bodily appearance - they concentrate on the male's face. Theories of Feature Processing: Pro. If attractiveness has any relation to mate-selection then we would expect two basic differences in the evaluation of traits in the opposite sex: first, those traits should be valued which guarantee optimal reproduction, that is youth and second, these traits should be basically those which are sexual dimorphic In the human face the basic proportions are sexually dimorphic, male traits develop under the influence of testosterone and female traits develop under estrogen. In the case of the broad male chin as a feature of attractiveness the constraints seem to be known. If females want dominant males, broad chins may signal a tendency to do...
