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.

[WindOracle]

It is not that I prefer pretty faces.. I just don't like ugly ones.

[cyborg]

I think, men can be more tolerant of a imperfect woman, than can a man be tolerant or and or afraid of a VICIOUS VINDICTIVE woman.

** You are right about that.

[Monkey Face]

You will tell her you love her enough to have gone half way around the world to bring her home to her true parents!

The color of her skin and the shape of her eyes have nothing to do with love. She just came to Earth in the wrong place, and you still found her...

She can search for her birth parents later...for now, you have a job to do.

[television is just wrong]

Women prefer pretty faces too. Rugged masuline faces as well.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Yes, sad, but true, to be honest ? I don't attend any church that much anymore.
As a whole, I see the church not having much distinction between the world.

[cyborg]

I would not worry. The best part of my childhood is that my parents didn't burden me with race issues. I am of a very mixed racial background and had all kinds of dolls. My mom didn't do this on purpose though, just whatever they had on the shelf. Just like I had a white cabbage patch kid, and I rememebr the black kids in the neighborhood could care less which color cababage patch it was. I never compared myself to anyone until I got older, but that's just us women being catty :-) Besides if she starts asking questions you can always say exactly what you said. It ought to be age appropriate.

[blackbart.223]

"Eventually I'll get over it. I'm not as shy as I used to be."

Hang Tough and always stand your ground.

Black Bart.

[Monkey Face]

"It is not that I prefer pretty faces.. I just don't like ugly ones."

Ain't that the truth?

Kiss me and tell me you love me.

[cyborg]

good advice

[Monkey Face]

Who sez?

[k2blader]

Alas, I think that has indeed been a failure of the Church in America...

I believe God intended Christians to be in regular fellowship with a church family. May I encourage you to keep looking... :-)

[joedownthestreet]

"I love that picture of Susan Estrich. She looks like she is about to hurl. I suppose you could say she really is, based on the stuff that comes out of her mouth."

It must have been taken on election day.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

What !!!!!!!!!! ?????????????????????? Chill out dude.
There have been many of women that I have found that was not attractive to me ( not because they were physically unattractive ) not because they were ugly, but, I saw there attitudes, and it turned me off.
A pretty face is a pretty face, but, there are other attributes that I look for in a woman, than her " PRETTY FACE ".
Not every pretty face I see in a woman, do I find attractive, so chill out dude, that response was uncalled for.
WHAT THE !!!! ????? " Who raised you and why do you think the " truth " is in the bed you just crawled out of ? "
???????????? That response was uncalled for, chill out.

[Betis70]

>>It must have been taken on election day.

On election night she actually looked OK. Before all the returns were in for Ohio she was quite sure that Kerry had won.

I saw that photo capture here on FR quite a bit before Nov. Don't recall exactly when.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Not BALOK from "The Corbomite Maneuver" (and many trailing credits)
She's the SALT VAMPIRE from "Man Trap", the first aired Star Trek episode!

ESTRICH	SALT VAMPIRE
BALOK	OSTRICH

[Prophet in the wilderness]

WHAT ?
You have to resort to personal attracts ?
So what ? if I can't write as good as others or spell as good as others, that is not the grading judgment on the value of a person. SO WHAT ??? if I can't write as eloquently as a Liberal DEMOCRAT Remember ? the moderator can have you banned because of personal attacks.

[cyborg]

I would just walk away my friend.

[blackbart.223]

"I would just walk away my friend."

Or fire a shot accross the bow.

[cyborg]

Yeah but I'm a peacenik :-)

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Yes, your right, Cyborg.
I have been with FR for while, and they are calling me a TROLL ?