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bounty44 -> RE: Weak men advocate for social equality (5/23/2017 4:20:43 PM)
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just as im going along...
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Finally, Holtzman, Augustine, and Senne (2011)) reported that bodily/facial symmetry relates negatively to prosocial personality traits, including some related to egalitarianism (e.g., fairness, empathy), in both men and women.
this reminded me of that line in the song: "if you want to be happy for the rest of your life, never make a pretty girl your wife"
and of the stereotype of that handsome and pretty people are "stuck up"
this:
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Moreover, we included facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR), a variable which has recently been shown to be associated with a range of related behavioural traits in males (for a review see Hodges-Simeon, Hanson Sobraske, Samore, Gurven, & Gaulin, 2016). Of particular note, fWHR has been shown to correlate positively with male strength (Windhager, Schaefer, & Fink, 2011), fighting ability (Zilioli et al., 2015), aggression (Haselhuhn, Ormiston, & Wong, 2015), and perceived dominance (Mileva, Cowan, Cobey, Knowles, & Little, 2014).
is fascinating. I used to have my students do somatotyping and this would have been an interesting thing to have included.
this is a very key phrase:
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In order to test whether changes in self-perceived formidability...
I was hoping for an objective measure, but still interesting...
nevermind, they did indeed have one:
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Bodily formidability. A composite measure of bodily formidability was computed by converting all measurements for males in the sample to z-scores, and taking the mean of shoulder, chest, bicep, grip strength, and arm/chest strength measurements. All five z scores were highly intercorrelated (mean item-total correlation = 0.73) so the composite measure had high reliability (α = 0.89).
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bicep circumference, grip strength, and chest strength—measurements were entered which the participant could compare directly to his own. Measurements were provided for these three particular variables because they are the ones most directly indicative of formidability...
I used to joke--why do so many men like the bench press (and we can add bicep curls)? because its the only part of their body they can see in their bathroom mirrors.
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As predicted, bodily formidability correlated significantly positively with SDO (r[168] = 0.22, p = 0.004) and significantly negatively with support for redistribution (r[169] = −0.19, p = 0.012).
the levels of significance (the low p-values), especially for such a relatively small sample, are quite high.
to the discussion:
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Results were consistent with some but not all predictions tested. First, as expected, bodily formidability did relate negatively to sociopolitical egalitarianism. Bodily formidability correlated positively with SDO (a replication of Price et al., 2011) and negatively with support for redistribution. As noted above, these formidability-egalitarianism relationships could be the result of men calibrating their egalitarianism to their own formidability, or alternatively could be due to increased muscularity-striving among less-egalitarian men, or to egalitarianism and muscularity-striving both depending on a third variable.
and the shortest line summing up the conclusions:
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In other words, the aspects of phenotypic formidability that are the best predictors of sociopolitical egalitarianism appear to be those most directly related to likelihood of prevailing in physical conflict: upper body muscularity and strength.
theres an old willie Dixon song called "weak brain, narrow mind" in which the following line occurs:
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you know the strong overpower the weak, and the smart overpower the strong...
watch "survivor" on tv---the "alpha male" often doesn't last long.
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