Women Prefer Men Who Look Like Dad

[CatWoman]

The type of man who makes woman’s heart flutter has a lot to whether she was a daddy’s girl, according to a new study.

Women who got along well with their dads as kids are attracted to men who resemble their fathers, whereas women who had a bad father-daughter relationship do not.


Lynda Boothroyd, a psychologist at Durham University in England, and her colleagues at the University of Wroclaw and the Institute of Anthropology in Poland asked a trained anthropologist to perform facial measurements on the photographs of 15 random men as well as the photographs of the fathers of 49 Polish women participating in the study.


The anthropologist calculated 15 key proportions based on how various features—such as the lips, nose, cheekbones and brows—related to each face’s height and width. The researchers also compared the 15 random faces to each of the father’s faces to determine how closely they resembled one another.


The women then rated their childhood relationships with their fathers based on how emotionally invested they felt their dads had been in raising them and how much time their fathers had spent with them. The women were split into two groups based on how positively or negatively they rated their relationships.


Then the researchers asked the women to rate how attractive they found each of the 15 random male faces.


The women who had reported positive relationships with their fathers were much more likely to be attracted to men resembling their fathers, the researchers found. On the other hand, women with bad dad relationships did not find men who looked like their fathers appealing.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070613/sc_livescience/womenprefermenwholooklikedad

[scarlet_owl]

1. I guess that's true in my case.

My husband does resemble my father a bit.

[CatWoman]

2. it's true in my case as well

:)

[Maine-ah]

3. might as well make that a third.

[ulysses]

4. we're outliers, then.

Cheryl idolized her dad, and I no more look like him than I can fly. :D

:hi:

[Zuiderelle]

5. True in my case. My partner doesn't resemble my father one bit.

:D

[BlueJazz]

6. I hope it doesn't work the other way around. My Mother is Beautiful...

How am I going to find a Mate that Smart, intelligent and kind...?

Umm...Well...there is DU...

[conscious evolution]

7. My sisters husband

looks like our father.