Introduction
“Imagine predicting if your partner is promiscuous simply by looking at their hands” .
Throughout this essay there will be, a description on digit ratio 2:D 4:D, a description on what is promiscuity?, evidence that proves promiscuity can be predicted through digit ratio 2:D 4:D , research about unfaithfulness promiscuity and prostate cancer, Study on promiscuity and androgens, Can you predict promiscuity by looking at fingers? Discussion and a conclusion Key words , androgens, digit ratio 2:D 4:D
Describing digit ratio 2:D 4:D In July 1930 a man by the name of Ruggles George conducted a study about measuring the index fingers and ring fingers of 620 participants 402 were males and 218 …show more content…
This pattern of results suggests that men can some-what accurately detect an unrestricted sexuality through static facial photographs without the benefit of direct observations of behaviour or other non-facial cues and is consistent with other previous reports”
(SOI) “The Sociosexual Orientation Inventory (SOI-R) is a 9-item self-report questionnaire designed to measure individuals differences in the tendency to have casual, uncommitted sexual relationships. This tendency, termed sociosexual orientation is divided into three facets measured by the inventory: behaviour (in terms of number of casual and changing sex partners), attitude (towards uncommitted sex) and desire (for people not in a romantic relationship)” (L. Penke and J. B. Asendorpf, 2008)
What the studies show is that the males identifying unfaithful women purely by sight can indicate an imbalance in androgens or be caused by” congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), which results in elevated androgen levels before birth, have lower, more masculinized 2D:4D on average”. Brown WM, Hines M, Fane BA, Breedlove SM; Hines; Fane; Breedlove (December