LONG LASHES, GENTLE LOOK MELT A WOMAN'S HEART.Byline: William McCall Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Given a choice between a dewy-looking Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11 1974[1]) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor who garnered world wide fame for his role as Jack Dawson in Titanic. type and a rugged Sean Connery sort of guy, women may naturally be attracted to the one with the more feminine face, even if both men are the same age, researchers say. A group of Scottish psychologists studying sexual behavior sexual behavior A person's sexual practices–ie, whether he/she engages in heterosexual or homosexual activity. See Sex life, Sexual life. reports that women prefer the faces of men with more feminine features because they are perceived as gentler and more trustworthy. The researchers theorize the·o·rize v. the·o·rized, the·o·riz·ing, the·o·riz·es v.intr. To formulate theories or a theory; speculate. v.tr. To propose a theory about. that this preference is not just a 1990s concept of beauty but something that is hard-wired into us by evolution: Evolution has seen to it that women choose men who are likely to be more loyal mates and better fathers to their children. ``We speculate that the preference has been around for a long time,'' said Ian Penton-Voak of the University of St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland. ``If you look at the evolutionary record, we've moved from a more robust form to a more gracile gracile /grac·ile/ (gras´il) slender or delicate. gracile slender; delicate. form as a species.'' In separate experiments in Scotland and Japan, researchers created a composite average face for a man and a woman from about 30 digital photos. The faces then were altered at key points, including the eyes, lips, noses and eyebrows, to make them more feminine or more masculine MASCULINE. That which belongs to the male sex. 2. The masculine sometimes includes the feminine, vide an example under the article Man, and see also the articles Gender, Worthiest of blood; Poth. Intr. au titre 16, des Testamens et Donations Testamentaires, n. . Ninety-two volunteers - college students and staff 18 to 44 years old - were asked to rate the faces according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. such factors as warmth, emotionality, honesty, intelligence and dominance. The 44 women, as well as the 48 men, preferred more feminine faces. The researchers said the results also reflect the tendency to favor youth when seeking a mate. The masculine faces tended to look older to the volunteers, even though the composites were made from photos of subjects the same age. The study was published in today's issue of the journal Nature. ``In the real world, people would find both Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Connery attractive. You have to use some common sense about this,'' Langlois said. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos, Box Photo: (1--Color) Connery (2--Color) DiCaprio Box: A pretty face? Who would you vote for...the man with the rugged or feminine face? See Daily News Line, this page. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion