Two recent studies attempted to separate the contributions of facial and bodily information to overall attractiveness or desirability judgments.Both studies documented the same sex-by-mating-strategy interaction effect.Which contention do these results support?

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The sex-by-mating-strategy interaction effect found in both studies suggests that men use bodily information to assess a woman's immediate fertility when choosing short-term mating partners. This is supported by the fact that both studies found that men rated women's bodies as more attractive when seeking short-term mates, while facial attractiveness was more important when seeking long-term mates.

Two Recent Studies Attempted to Separate the Contributions of Facial