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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886913012245 | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886913012245 | ||
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273809664_The_Dark_Triad_personality_Attractiveness_to_women | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273809664_The_Dark_Triad_personality_Attractiveness_to_women | ||
==[Race] The human species is biologically wired to prefer Whiter skin== | |||
Many people claim that the modern beauty standard by which whiter individuals are deemed more attractive is purely cultural. This overlooks the fact that preferences for lighter skin became apparent thousands of years ago in very different areas like Africa, India, China, & Europe. It also overlooks scientific research which demonstrates the preference for whiter skin is more likely biological. | |||
To remove racial bias from the equation, researchers asked Caucasian participants to change the skin color of Caucasian male and female faces on a computer screen to make them look as healthy as possible. The participants overwhelmingly increased the rosiness, yellowness and brightness of the subjects' skin. | |||
Past research from the same team showed this preference in other races as well, where South Africans tended to judge rosier faces as more healthy. | |||
A combination of bright, rosy, and golden skin is suggested to represent a biological indicator of health, and this is likely ingrained in the human species from an evolutionary perspective, as the same preference has been observed in even nonhuman animals. | |||
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* "Stephen and his colleagues asked 54 Caucasian participants to change the skin color of about 50 male and female faces on a computer screen to make them look as healthy as possible. Hands down, the participants tended to increase the rosiness, yellowness and brightness of the skin." | |||
* "To enhance healthy appearance, participants increased skin redness, providing additional support for previous findings that skin blood color enhances the healthy appearance of faces. Participants also increased skin yellowness and lightness, suggesting a role for high carotenoid and low melanin coloration in the healthy appearance of faces. The color preferences described here resemble the red and yellow color cues to health displayed by many species of nonhuman animals." | |||
* "The results would likely hold for other ethnicities as well. For instance, past research has shown black South Africans tend to judge rosier faces as healthier. And forthcoming research suggests the same may hold for yellowness and lightness of facial skin." | |||
* "Effectively health and attractiveness are pretty much the same thing." | |||
'''Reference:''' | |||
Stephen, I.D., Law Smith, M.J., Stirrat, M.R. et al. Facial Skin Coloration Affects Perceived Health of Human Faces. Int J Primatol (2009) 30: 845. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10764-009-9380-z | |||
https://www.livescience.com/5860-attractiveness-based-partly-skin-color.html | |||
==[Race] Women express greater racism than men in dating, particularly directed at Asian men== | ==[Race] Women express greater racism than men in dating, particularly directed at Asian men== | ||