To: crushelits
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.
Sounds like they were afraid to say which face the babies chose if shown faces, one "pretty" African and one "pretty" European. I have read somewhere that children of either race almost always choose the European. Might have been choice of dolls or something like that.
To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
That was a doll experiment done with black girls and white dolls. A lot of it has to do with the images of beauty in society.
278 posted on
02/19/2005 12:19:39 AM PST by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
BTW, doing such an experiment would depend on what kind of parents the baby has. If a baby with two white parents didn't pick a black person that doesn't necessarily mean that the person isn't attractive. Just doesn't look like mommy and daddy. This can be a repeated for biracial babies, black babies adopted by white parents,etc.
280 posted on
02/19/2005 12:21:45 AM PST by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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