{"id":4337,"date":"2015-10-01T12:18:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T16:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4337"},"modified":"2015-10-01T12:18:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T16:18:15","slug":"beauty-really-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/beauty-really-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4340\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/99897_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4340\" class=\"wp-image-4340\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/99897_web-1024x616.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot from the &quot;Rate That Face&quot; online experiment found at http:\/\/www.testmybrain.org\/setup.php?b=309. (Image Credit: Germine et el.)\" width=\"498\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/99897_web-1024x616.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/99897_web-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/99897_web.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from the &#8220;Rate That Face&#8221; online experiment found at http:\/\/www.testmybrain.org\/setup.php?b=309. (Image Credit: Germine et el.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder, or at least partly, according to new findings. While there are indeed some universal aspects of attractiveness, such as symmetry, they believe that the uniqueness of an individual\u2019s facial preferences is determined by experiences with friends and peers, past partners, as well as social and popular media.<\/p>\n<p>The data was collected primarily through a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.testmybrain.org\/tests\/aesthetics\/attfaces_twins_gh.html\" target=\"_blank\">survey<\/a><\/span> hosted on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">TestMyBrain.org<\/span> and asked over 35,000 volunteers to rank 65 faces on attractiveness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/abstract\/S0960-9822(15)01019-2\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in<em>\u00a0Current Biology\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>October 1<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Laura Germine, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder, or at least partly, according to new findings. While there are indeed some universal aspects of attractiveness, such as symmetry, they believe that the uniqueness of an individual\u2019s facial preferences is determined by experiences with friends and peers, past partners, as well as social and popular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1851,2458,215,917,909,1647],"class_list":["post-4337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-anthropology","tag-beauty","tag-environment","tag-evolution","tag-genetics","tag-human-behaviour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/99897_web.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-17X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4341,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions\/4341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}