Faithfulness from a Photo?

Ratings from a facial photo and actual faithfulness.

faithfulfaces

Format

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

sex_dimorph

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

attractive

Rating of attractiveness

cheater

Was the face subject unfaithful to a partner?

trustworthy

Rating of trustworthiness

faithful

Rating of faithfulness

face_sex

Sex of face (female or male)

rater_sex

Sex of rater (female or male)

Source

This data set was taken from the Stats2Data R package. From the description in that package, the original 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.)

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).