Although female faces were always preferred to be feminine, the women threw a problem at Perret when they were judging the attractiveness of men. Their opinions varied greatly, and they couldn’t seem to reach a consensus! After looking into the problem, Perrett discovered that women preferred masculine looking men when they were at peak fertility. This may be because when women are very fertile; their body is telling the brain that it needs to procreate. A masculine looking male is more likely to produce healthy offspring. When women were less fertile, they preferred feminine looking men, who they thought would make good, caring partners (Penton-Voek, 1999). It was also discovered that women who thought they were very attractive preferred masculine men, while the women who thought of themselves as mildly attractive went for the feminine looking men. Little et al. suggested that this was because masculine men were assumed to be unwilling to invest time and resources into a family, but might invest a lot into highly attractive women.
While physical traits are important, such as symmetry or masculinity-femininity, social cues also play an important role in attractiveness. Our expression, and where we look, can communicate our emotional state, and effect how attractive others perceive us to be. When somebody smiles, we understand that they are happy, and where they look is the center of their attention. Brain imaging has allowed researchers to gather information about which part of the brain is stimulated when processing attractive and unattractive faces. They discovered that the part of the brain most active at these times was the same spot that processed rewards. When viewing an attractive face, there are high levels of...
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Facial symmetry is also linked to agreeableness, extraversion and conscientiousness, so good-looking people generally find it easier to make friends and hold down jobs. Attractive people are most likely to succeed because some companies are looking for models to be on the cover of their magazines. They are always making money just to be on the cover of a book that people always complain about and they would just say that should I try this product do you think it will help my stubborn fat and try to lose it by taking this daily with food or water. Researchers say that they can tell if people are attractive or unattractive because they watch guys looking at women and giving facial expressions to tell the other person what they think about the girl or girls.
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on a scale from 1 to 3, the importance men gave to good looks rose from 1.50 to 2.11. But for women, the importance of good looks in men rose from 0.94 to 1.67. In other words, women in 1989 considered a man look’s more important than men considered women’s looks 50 years earlier
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This study took a sample from colleges and looked at how hair color fit into physical attractiveness (Berscheid, Ellen and Elaine Walster 1974). However her research was limited by the fact that she only looked at female subjects and seemed to disregard male symbolism. The author took a survey and focused on attributes such as: attractiveness (Carl B. Backman and Murray C. Adams 1991), likeability, confidence, and intelligence, and she asked the subjects to rate from strongly agree to strongly disagree then analyzed the
The phenomenon of “lookism” has been a running topic of discussion for a long time. The term is a culturally formed word used to describe the treatment of people who are thought to be physically attractive. As far back as 42 BC, Publilius Syrus declared that “A fair exterior is a silent recommendation” while Shakespeare said that beauty in itself persuades people without another form influence (Cavico, Muffler, & Mujtaba, 2012). A perfect example was given by James (2008), that when two women of similar qualification apply for the same job, the employer would likely pick the most attractive of the two. This decision is purely based on and informed by the notion that physical attractiveness is accompanied by other favorable
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