People often talk about love at first sight but what are the physical characteristics that make someone attractive?
Well for a start familiarity is one thing. Have you ever noticed that some couples look quite similar? Well, studies have shown that we tend to go for partners that look quite like ourselves! Research at the University of St Andrews in Scotland used computers to morph individuals faces into the their opposite sex self! When they were shown a selection of pictures of the opposite sex (with their own in the pile) they were likely to select the picture that looked most like themselves! That’s self love!
Failing finding the mirror image of youself, how about your mum or dad? Perrett, who led the study suggests the reason for us liking a face similar to ours so much is because they remind us of the faces we constantly looked at in our childhood years J
Not only are we looking to replicate ourselves, we’re also looking for perfection... Other studies have suggested that faces that are symetrical are more attactractive than those that are not. This could be linked back to symmetry being a sign of strong genes. Interestingly symmetry is more important to men than to women who may be looking for good genes in rank or status rather than purely looks alone.
So, a symmetrical mirror image of yourself could be just what you are looking for!
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