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.

[noah]

The older I get, the more beautiful they all seem to get - period.

[crushelits]

Letitia was my son's favorite beauty 2 or 3 years ago...

Then again I prefer Kate

[LowOiL]

Is that a belly button, or something you're not allowed to show here?

You know it is Spring time when the ladies start showing off their belly buttons...

yes, it is an bb...

[ItsForTheChildren]

Gonna need more than two bags.

[doug from upland]

Great tagline!

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

(ref post 202)

Is that a belly button, or something you're not allowed to show here?

You know it is Spring time when the ladies start showing off their belly buttons...

MAYBE THAT IS THE DU ANSWER TO PROTESTWARRIOR'S BELLY GIRL....

/ actually it's very sad, that woman is "medicating" herself with food, somebody that big has pain that big.... she has made her belly her god rather than turn to God. Jesus said, "I am come that ye might have life, and have it ABUNDANTLY."

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Gene Tierney

[RansomOttawa]

You're going to hell for that.

[RansomOttawa]

Nicole deBoer, actress, very very pretty

The lovely and talented ms. deBoer is proof that God loves Canada.

[k2blader]

Wow, she is beautiful! I wonder how she looked without any makeup on. :-)

[Minuteman23]

Rita Hayworth

[broadsword]

Thanks... (heart still pounding)

Clean is sexy!


...and so hard to find these days.

[sully777]

Just some of the first page Google's research of Sophie Marceau. No idea what is in them. But I think the censored post 203 is mild compared to some, by the descriptions Google allows. Funny how 203 was censored but 202 is still blazing away. IMO, 202 is horrid while 203 is artistry and proportionate perfection.

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And on and on

[djf]

Certainment, elle c'est belle.

I really don't mind the mods blocking it, after all, FR is a family website.

But they allow the photoshop pic of Helen Thomas nude, which to some may seem funny.

I admit, the first 6,000 pictures of her, not to mention the first 10,000 pictures of cats was funny.

But, like myself, it's getting a bit old and trivial.

What the hell, Sophie it truly beautiful, I guess the only fantasy left is to believe she is not an absolute b*tch.

[Minuteman23]

Clean is sexy! ...and so hard to find these days.

You got that right.

[sully777]

But they allow the photoshop pic of Helen Thomas nude, which to some may seem funny.

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The photoshop pictures of Helen Thomas was classic. I never get tired, though I wish they would mix it up with others. It would have been funnier still to have manzierre, metrosexual moment with Dan Rather in that picture.

BTW, Mods generally don't can't censor classical artwork (finger to the side of the nose)

[sully777]

I can't believe I wrote that last post.

Scratchit. Mods always censor photographs but RARELY censor paintings from The Masters. For example a photograph of Catherine Zeta Jones in a wet T-shirt is obscene but a painting of Venus born, or the Muses frolicing in the grove, or Esther's preparation for Xerxes is untouchable art, even if you photoshop Helen Thomas' face upon the figure.

[muir_redwoods]

Wow, can you spell ophthalmologist?

Pardon me but I find them both attractive.