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Lynda Boothroyd Profile picture
Lynda Boothroyd
@drboothroyd
Professor of Psychology. Occasional anthropologist | Study face/body perception, body image, gender and culture in adults and kids | VP @EHBEA1 | #WIASN
Oct 9, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
In all my years of doing evolutionary research on mate choice, many journalists would ask for advice for their readers on dating. I always replied that our work was about understanding human evolution at species level, not about what's right or best for individuals. 1/ Image It was to me unethical to even try as to do so would always fall foul of the naturalistic fallacy in application by individuals, even if not in my intent. I don't even need one hand to count the pop sci writers who could thread that needle well and neither are part of this.
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Jan 30, 2019 • 22 tweets • 8 min read
It’s time for my facial masculinity rant – or “how frustrating it was to be right all along and still wrong in ways I hadn’t expected”.

1/ In 2002, as a baby PhD student I gathered data on women’s preferences for masculinity, health and age in men’s faces, expecting to get an overall ‘preference for quality’. It didn’t turn out as planned…
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