pookah69 opened this issue on Mar 26, 2005 ยท 13 posts
Danava posted Sat, 26 March 2005 at 1:51 PM
I saw a rather detailed hour long show about physical beauty and atttractiveness on one of the Discovery channels which DID make those correlations. In fact, one rather facinating part of the study was that they had 4 men with varying degrees of facial symmetry wear a tee shirt for 12 hours. They then gave the tee shirt to some women for them to rate the smells on an "attractveness scale. Interestingly enough, the shirts the women liked the most belonged to the men with the most symmetric faces. Pretty wild. On the other hand, the show pointed out that PERFECT symmetry is vauglely unsetteling to most people. We seem to instinctivly know that perfect symmetry is impossible and therefore looks 'unreal'. I wish I could remember the name of the show.