enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Physical attractiveness - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_attractiveness

    Reasons given for this say skin health may reflect an individual's overall health. Healthy skin can show that someone is free from illness because some illnesses have a bad effect on the look of skin. These features are found attractive because they show that the person has good genes and is therefore a suitable mate to reproduce with. Skin ...

  3. Physical attractiveness stereotype - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_attractiveness...

    The physical attractiveness stereotype was first formally observed in a study done by Karen Dion, Ellen Berscheid, and Elaine Walster in 1972. [1] The goal of this study was to determine whether physical attractiveness affected how individuals were perceived, specifically whether they were perceived to have more socially desirable personality traits and quality of life.

  4. Figure rating scale - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_rating_scale

    Researchers assigned six specific instructions to ask of their participants during figure selection: (1) choose your ideal figure; (2) choose the figure that reflects how you think you look; (3) choose the figure that reflects how you feel most of the time; (4) choose the figure that you think is most preferred by men; (5) choose the figure that you think is most preferred by women; and (6 ...

  5. Things Americans Obsess Over That Puzzle the Rest of the World

    www.aol.com/27-strange-things-americans...

    Think the American way is the only way? It turns out that many Americans have their preferences, and the rest of the world sometimes doesn’t get it.

  6. Cheerleader effect - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheerleader_effect

    Brown University cheerleaders. The cheerleader effect, also known as the group attractiveness effect or the friend effect, [1] is a proposed cognitive bias which causes people to perceive individuals as 1.5–2.0% more attractive in a group than when seen alone. [2]

  7. Body odour and sexual attraction - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_odour_and_sexual...

    Odour is sensory stimulation of the olfactory membrane of the nose [1] by a group of molecules. [2] Certain body odours are connected to human sexual attraction. [3] [4] Humans can make use of body odour subconsciously to identify whether a potential mate will pass on favourable traits to their offspring.

  8. Feminine beauty ideal - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminine_beauty_ideal

    A 2008 study sought to find whether blond hair or dark hair was the feminine beauty ideal in the Western world. The authors found that dark hair, rather than blond hair, was the feminine ideal. Women with dark hair were over-represented in Western fashion and pop-culture media, which may explain the finding that men in England generally rated ...

  9. Cuteness - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuteness

    A study found that the faces of "attractive" Northern Italian Caucasian children have "characteristics of babyness" such as a "larger forehead", a smaller jaw, "a proportionately larger and more prominent maxilla", a wider face, a flatter face and larger "anteroposterior" facial dimensions than the Northern Italian Caucasian children used as a ...