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Revealing the complex chemistry of love - Irish Times

Revealing the complex chemistry of love
Irish Times
A popular belief is that we tend to find symmetrical faces attractive, but Re argues that there's more to it than that. “Studies show that facial symmetry has an effect on attractiveness, but that it is a small effect,” he says.

The mating game - The Friday Times

The mating game
The Friday Times
Eyes are used to gauge the physical attractiveness of others and also to send signals of interest. Since eyes prefer symmetry or figures with some regularity, faces and bottoms are found to be of primal importance. This is because the structure of a ...

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Boys aren't immune to body image pressures – and never have been - The Conversation

Boys aren't immune to body image pressures – and never have been
The Conversation
The perceived attractiveness of muscular men has grown since around the 1950s, alongside the muscularity of male models. The body size of male Playgirl models gradually increased from the 1950s to the late 1990s with an increase in muscle and lean body ...