Is Beauty in the Face of the Beholder? Spoiler: Yes, people mostly like faces that are fairly similar to their own.

sh0t · 2021-11-12T06:33:04+00:00

ugly people prefer hot people

Carkudo · 2021-11-12T02:07:08+00:00

Those studies showing that blind women are still only attracted conventionally attractive chads would like to have a word.

Of course, that's only if we go with your baseless assumption that preference equals attraction. If we don't then the post itself is off topic and not relevant to the black pill.

sadomasochrist · 2021-11-11T22:19:25+00:00

This is a grossly innacurate framing of beauty. This is PREFERENCE, not beauty. Beauty is who the most people agree is attractive. God this stuff gets so me so irritated. Like how do these people spend so much time kvetching on this stuff and not just accepting reality and framing around it. Guess what they'd find if they calculated the face that "looks the most similar to the most number of people?" Facepalm.

Like who do you want to be, the person who is facially similar to an incel "beautiful" or mathematically almost average meaning the most number of people are similar to you and therefor actually beautiful?

Absolutely idiotic.

PumpForce · 2021-11-19T18:08:12+00:00

If this would be the case, asian american females wouldn't have an obsession towards white men and a hatred in sexual preference for their own kind

Ohyarlysmiles · 2021-11-11T19:17:44+00:00

"Lovers clearly prefer their partners' faces to resemble their own over having their partners' faces look “more attractive” or more similar to the average face of their sex. Thus, these findings based on attractiveness of face manipulation of partners support the existence of a robust but context-dependent mating strategy that promotes positive assortment for facial resemblance based on Self’s phenotype."

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"Attractiveness judgments of morphs of the observer’s face with faces of opposite-sex partners were clearly modulated by similarity to the observer. Different doses of resemblance to ‘self’ caused changes in attractiveness judgments of the morphs, resulting in the Self 22% morph being preferred to all of the others."

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"We used an “objective test” of consciousness [67] and found no evidence that Self morphs could be distinguished from other morphs, since our participants could not detect better than chance that an image of the partner had been blended with Self from either an image of the partner blended with ‘Other’ (i.e., a stranger) or from the original (‘Mirror’) face.
We reasoned that humans may prefer an optimal balance between outbreeding and inbreeding and that an “incest taboo” avoids extreme inbreeding at a conscious level [35]. By showing that our participants were unaware of the presence of Self’s face in the present morph stimuli strengthens the conclusion that self-referential effects can be revealed at levels of similarity between an observer and the opposite-sex face that remain unconscious."

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"The present study shows that, at least at an unconscious level, individuals of both sexes do love their partners as they are but also like themselves to such an extent that they prefer a photographic version of their partner’s face that contains a small amount of their own facial traits. Specifically, a self-referential morph was preferred over the morph of the partner’s face with the latter’s same-sex prototype. Crucially, in the experiments, other individuals (i.e., member of the other participating couples) consistently ranked as most attractive the morphs of the partner’s face with the latter’s same-sex prototype whereas the morph of the same face with the partner’s face was ranked by these control judges as the least attractive. Thus, when given the opportunity, romantic partners may prefer that their partners’ faces resemble their own over having their partners' faces “objectively” look more attractive. In this respect, the present findings bring some support to the “matching hypothesis” originally proposed by some social psychologists [42], [71], [72] [73] that men and women of similar attractiveness are drawn to one another as romantic partners as a reflection of direct biases rather than simply as an indirect (side) effect of each individual’s ability to attract and compete with other (available) individuals within the “biological market” [74], [75]."

Red_Lancia_Stratos · 2021-11-11T20:15:59+00:00

Hello is that Philippe Rushton calling? You better answer…

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JijoViale · 2022-01-03T01:26:07+00:00

Evolution by gene selefti at its best. We feel more attracted to people who shares the most genes with us.

soggy_midnight_0712 · 2022-02-23T16:40:47+00:00

No!!! People find those faces beautiful that don't have their insecurities. I'm a sout asian and here fair skin, good jawline and fit body is the ultimate standard for beauty. I have a fair skin but lack a jawline. A guy who crushes on me has a bomb jawline but is slightly darker. I'm crazy for his jawline and he is crazy for my skin tone.

Title	Is Beauty in the Face of the Beholder? Spoiler: Yes, people mostly like faces that are fairly similar to their own.
Author	Ohyarlysmiles
Upvotes	65
Comments	30
Date	November 11, 2021 7:15 PM UTC (4 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/BlackPillScience
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