http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17950291?ordinalpos=3&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
訳by AJ
女性はエストラジオールによって、テストステロンの濃い男性顔への好みを示す
増大する研究の示すところによれば、女性は月経周期において、排卵期の方が他の時期より、男性的特徴へ強い魅力を感じる。このことは、最も妊娠しやすい時期において、より強いテストステロンがある特徴への好みが増すとして、解釈されてきた。しかしこれまでの研究では、月経周期中の異なった時期において、女性は高テストステロン男性へのより強い好みがある事を直接には示してこなかった。さらに、ホルモンあるいは他の生理学的メカニズムが女性の一時的な好みの変化を制御している事を示す研究もほとんどなかった。この研究では、我々はエストラジオール血中濃度が高い女性が、高テストステロン血中濃度男性の顔への強い好みを示すこと、女性のテストステロンへの好みと月経周期中のエストラジオール変化は互いに相関することを示した。この知見はヒトにおいて、一つの性別のホルモン血中濃度が、他の性別のホルモン状況の手がかりへの魅力と関連することを、初めて示したものだ。（以下略）
Women's estradiol predicts preference for facial cues of men's testosterone.
Roney JR, Simmons ZL.
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660, USA. roney@psych.ucsb.edu
A growing body of research has shown that women express stronger attraction to more masculine traits when they are tested near ovulation than when tested during other times in the menstrual cycle. Although these effects have been interpreted as increased preferences for markers of elevated testosterone during times in the cycle when conception is most likely, no previous studies have directly demonstrated that women express stronger attraction to higher testosterone men at different times in the cycle. In addition, little research has addressed which hormonal or other physiological mechanisms may regulate temporal shifts in women's attractiveness judgments. In this research, we demonstrate that women with higher estradiol concentrations exhibit stronger preferences for the faces of men with higher testosterone concentrations, and that women's testosterone preference and estradiol curves track one another across days of the cycle. The findings are the first direct demonstration in humans that hormone concentrations in one sex are associated with attraction to cues of hormonal status in the opposite sex. The results support a functional role for estradiol in calibrating women's mating psychology to indices of their current fertility, analogous to similar processes that have been documented in nonhuman species. A strong correlation between estradiol and testosterone preference specifically during the luteal phase further suggests that women's mate preferences may track their fertility between different cycles in addition to being calibrated to the timing of ovulation within individual cycles.
