Why Men Prefer Pretty Faces

channels.netscape.com ^ | Feb. 18, 2004 | channels.netscape.com

[crushelits]

Why Men Prefer Pretty Faces

So you think beauty is in the eye of the beholder? Think again. According to new research from the University of Exeter in Great Britain, the preference for pretty faces over ugly ones is embedded in our brains from the moment of birth and possibly prior to birth.

Newborn babies come fully equipped with built-in preferences, including a preference for an attractive face, that help them make sense of their new environment, report the BBC News Online and Newsweek magazine. The Exeter researchers showed more than 100 infants two images that were placed side by side. One was of an attractive face, while the other was a less attractive face. The babies, ranging in age from five hours old to two days old, spent about 80 percent of the time looking at the attractive face, while barely glancing at the unattractive face.

"You can show them pair after pair of faces that are matched for everything other than attractiveness. This leads to the conclusion that babies are born with a very detailed representation of the human face," Dr. Alan Slater, a psychologist at Exeter, explained to the BBC News. Why would infants have this capability? "It helps them to recognize familiar faces--particularly that of the mother--and it helps them in learning about the social world. Attractiveness is not simply in the eye of the beholder, it is in the brain of the newborn infant right from the moment of birth and possibly prior to birth," he added.
When those babies grow up, the preference for pretty faces doesn't change. And it crosses all cultures and geography as well. When an insular European is shown the faces of two Africans, the one he chooses as most attractive is also the same one an African chooses. And it works the other way around when an African is shown the faces of two Europeans.

"Although we think that standards of facial beauty vary over time and culture, they don't actually change that much," Slater explained to Newsweek. The evidence indicates that there is a biological and universal standard."

So don't blame a man when he can't help but look at a pretty face! He's biologically programmed that way.

[crushelits]

I KNOW, SHE'S ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!

[FreedomCalls]

You choose:

or

[cyborg]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1346516/posts?page=87#87

LaShawn on the left, Star Parker on the right

[k2blader]

How 'bout you post a pic of yourself so we can judge if it's repulsive too. :-)

[F16Fighter]

"How about FReeper faces vs. DUmmy faces?"

I'd have to assume the DU faces are somewhat satanic and Hitlery-like.

[F16Fighter]

Pretty gals -- who/what are they?

[TheBrotherhood]

I can't make up my mind, but gladly take the one you rejected, ie, the top one.

[F16Fighter]

Has Miss Thomas requested her close-up (cough, hack) be posted at this time? (And is Cecil B. DeMille a Freeper?)

[beyond the sea]

ROFL........... btw, I think Michelle ought to supply us with some more updated pictures!

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

[The Westerner]

I've noticed that babies like faces with striking features and symmetry...which can otherwise be defined as beauty.

[Squantos]

Why you silver tounged devil you.......wink wink !

Why Men Prefer Pretty Faces.......Scroll down !

[FreedomCalls]

Have you ever noticed that in that photo that it looks like someone is punching her in the face?

[crushelits]

Age of Reason

PREFERS THEM LIKE THIS ONE:

[sully777]

I think she wants to slip you some tongue.

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I saw that too. No opening of the mouth necessary. No I'm going to barf again.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Susan Ostrich looks like that alien on the old STAR TREAK show. There are reasons why GOD made things attractive and things that repel ( or repulsive )
For example : flowers and plants have some capabilities to attract bees, butterflies and other insects to carry the pollen to the other sex of those species of plants and flowers to bread.
While, other flowers and plants have the capabilities to repel animals, insects, so on and so on.

[TheBrotherhood]

Oh my God!

I'm rich!!

[DTogo]

Is TheBigB in on this thread? He needs to be...

[cyborg]

LaShawn is a blogger and Star Parker is a speaker/conservative author. LaShawn is a freeper too, but I can't remember what her freepname is.