id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_7tkfbu5ytfh47jchcn6zcoctcm Jon K. Maner Sexually Selective Cognition: Beauty Captures the Mind of the Beholder 2003 14 .pdf application/pdf 12322 914 52 attractive female targets, (b) limiting the attentional capacity of either gender results in biased frequency females' attentional capacity does not lead to biased estimates of attractive males, (d) observers of both as social status), we hypothesize that people may selectively process physically attractive individuals at early (e.g., initial attention) If mate-search goals motivate selective attention to attractive opposite-sexed others, people who are already stimulus presentation, participants subsequently estimated the frequency of attractive faces they noticed in the arrays. that, consistent with the "female beauty captures the mind" hypothesis, participants estimated greater proportions of attractive Furthermore, participants estimated greater percentages of attractive women than men only in the (attentionlimiting) parallel presentation condition, F(1, 147) � 27.54, p � three-way interaction between participant sex, relationship commitment, and presentation time on frequency estimates of attractive women was significant, F(1, 248) � 9.19, p � .01. percentages of attractive female targets only in the attention-limiting parallel presentation condition. ./cache/work_7tkfbu5ytfh47jchcn6zcoctcm.pdf ./txt/work_7tkfbu5ytfh47jchcn6zcoctcm.txt