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.

[Cold Heat]

Euro tax at work!

[nothingnew]

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.

Sounds like bullshiite to me. If I talked to, played with, taught what I did to them, and showed my love for them, my twin daughters, who are now 26, when they were newborns with my butt in their faces, they'd love a buttface.....which I am.

FMCDH(BITS)

[dzzrtrock]

The female form is definitely deeply rooted in the male psyche.

Now there's a statement rife with double entendre's

[Minuteman23]

I never tire of looking at this one.

[martin_fierro]

[crushelits]

[Abcdefg]

Melissa Theuriau
http://www.ryoni.com/news/123/ARTICLE/1099/2005-01-07.html

[Age of Reason]

Both the pictures look like nice looking ladies to me.

Granted, when I was young, almost anything in a skirt looked good--hormones are like alcohol: they distort your vision.

but with makeup both ladies facewise would be considered as pretty

Makeup on a woman is hideous.

Prettiest women I've ever seen were wearing none.

[F16Fighter]

Lol

[finnman69]

[scripter]

[F16Fighter]

Suddenly, Miss Thomas became a babe.

[nothingnew]

Thanks for the pics,but that last one put me into a tailspin for the barfroom...you can be cruel at times dfu...

FMCDH(BITS)

[HardStarboard]

Doug - the juxtaposition of Michelle Malkin and Susan Estrich is brilliant. The paired photographs could be entitled "Why I Am A Conservative"!

Conservative Women Rock!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

And stop traffic on a dime.

[Abcdefg]

even more: http://www.teamgsb.com/melissa.htm

[doug from upland]

Is that the picture of Hillary's lesbian college roomate?

[TheBrotherhood]

Oh she is gorgeous. Heavenly.

[sully777]

She plucked her eyebrows and penciled in a lovelier look...excuse me I'm going to

baaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrffffffffff (splattering sounds) No, I'm better. I never hit the scree,...Oh no a new wave is coming

baaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrffffffff (dripping mucous) oh, I think that's the last of it..... oh help me dry heaves

ggggggaaaaaaaaaaggggggggg

[sweetliberty]

"What happens if babies are shown plain and handsome male faces?"

And what about babies with butt ugly mothers.