A new study shows that genes are not the main the reason to identify attractiveness in humans.
The new study by the Journal of Current Biology
suggests that to find attractiveness in an individual is subjective to the person's environment. Stating that past experiences can lead to finding a person attractive or not. This new study focused on 547 sets of twins, with identical DNA, and asked them to rate 98 males and 102 females based on their attractiveness. They compared the similarities between identical twins and fraternal twins to see if genetics played more of a key role in attractiveness or if it can be attributed to the environment in which a person was exposed to. The study showed that genetics can be attributed to 22% of the time in terms of attractiveness while the environment in which a person was exposed to can be attributed to 78%. Beauty is truly in the eyes of the beholder.
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ReplyDeleteThe first thing I noticed was the screenshot of Tinder. After reading this article, I conducted a full analysis of its possible relation to Tinder. If selfie on your Tinder profile would pertain to the genetics aspect (22%) of attractiveness, while a picture of you posing with friends would pertain to the environment aspect (78%) of attractiveness, the ratio of selfies to photos of you posing with friends on your Tinder profile affects your Tinder game. Long story short, this is a good article, and I enjoyed reading it.
ReplyDeleteThis is a really interesting concept for me to grasp. I never would've expected genetics to play a role at all in determining whether someone finds another person to be attractive. I'm curious as to what genetic factors do influence this behavior. As expected, the article did state that environment played a more prominent role in determining attractiveness, but not as much as I would've though. Overall, it was neat to read about.
ReplyDeleteThis is really interesting as a psychology major I have learned about the "science of attractiveness" and there are a lot of biological aspects that do effect how a person perceived the opposite sex (or same sex, depending on their sexual orientation). But speaking of heterosexual relations, I do think that there are a lot of underlying biological reasons to why a guy will find a girl more attractive, for example a female who is closer to her menstrual cycle will seem more attractive to a man (because she is more like to fertilize his sperm), as well as a female with a more symmetrical face will seem more attractive on the attractiveness scale regardless. And one other fun fact that stands out in my memory about this whole attractiveness subject, which I found completely strange is that if women are told to smell the sweat of a handful of men (one of them being a relative) they will rate that of the relative as least attractive.
ReplyDeleteThis subject in general is quiet interesting in my opinion, it was cool it read about.