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What is more, people automatically associate physical attractiveness with various positive traits to an unreasonable degree, e.g. a good personality, humor, morality, intelligence and health ([[halo effect]]), especially initially.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Attractive_people_are_perceived_much_more_positively_than_they_really_are</ref> | What is more, people automatically associate physical attractiveness with various positive traits to an unreasonable degree, e.g. a good personality, humor, morality, intelligence and health ([[halo effect]]), especially initially.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Attractive_people_are_perceived_much_more_positively_than_they_really_are</ref> | ||
This may even affect parents treating their good looking offspring better.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/03/health/ugly-children-may-get-parental-short-shrift.html</ref> In contrast to intuitive judgements, looks are only weakly related to health and even less with morality or cognitive ability which suggests beauty and symmetry [[Fisherian runaway|evolved only because they look good]], not because they indicate any other benefits to meaningful degree. | This may even affect parents treating their good looking offspring better.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/03/health/ugly-children-may-get-parental-short-shrift.html</ref> In contrast to intuitive judgements, looks are only weakly related to health and even less with morality or cognitive ability which suggests beauty and symmetry [[Fisherian runaway|evolved only because they look good]], not because they indicate any other benefits to meaningful degree. | ||
Taken together, these research findings suggest that human preferences for physical appearance is largely innate and possibly | Taken together, these research findings suggest that human preferences for physical appearance is largely innate and possibly resulted from aesthetic [[sexual selection]] and perhaps [[Fisherian runaway|runaway selection]], rather than from cultural evolution or even [[social constructionism|social construction]]. | ||
=== Women are just as 'visual' as men=== | === Women are just as 'visual' as men=== | ||