Perceptions of threat track self-reported social, but not physical, aggression in women's faces

Unlike for men, cues of threat in women's faces have not been well-studied. Although morphological markers, such as facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) and body mass index (BMI), have been associated with physical threat in men, evidence for these relationships in women is less clear. Further, because women's aggression is typically social rather than physical, it is possible that threat advertisement and assessment mechanisms evolved to track...