FaithfulFacesR Documentation

Faithfulness from a Photo?

Description

Ratings from a facial photo and actual faithfulness.

Format

A data frame with 170 observations on the following 7 variables.

SexDimorph

Rating of sexual dimorphism (masculinity for males, femininity for females)

Attract

Rating of attractiveness

Cheater

Was the face subject unfaithful to a partner? (1=yes or 0=no)

Trust

Rating of trustworthiness

Faithful

Rating of faithfulness

FaceSex

Sex of face (F=female or M=male)

RaterSex

Sex of rater (F=female or M=male)

Details

College students were asked to look at a photograph of an opposite-sex adult face and to rate the person, on a scale from 1 (low) to 10 (high), for attractiveness. They were also asked to rate trustworthiness, faithfulness, and sexual dimorphism (i.e., how masculine a male face is and how feminine a female face is). Overall, 68 students (34 males and 34 females) rated 170 faces (88 men and 82 women).

Source

This dataset is based on G. Rhodes et al. (2012), "Women can judge sexual unfaithfulness from unfamiliar men's faces," Biology Letters, November 2012. All of the 68 raters were heterosexual Caucasians, as were the 170 persons who were rated. (We have deleted 3 subjects with missing values and 16 subjects who were over age 35.)