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 i
n 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.
“While previous research has suggested this to be the case, these controlled results show for certain that the quality of a daughter’s relationship with her father has an impact on whom she finds attractive,” Boothroyd said in a prepared statement. “It shows our human brains don't simply build prototypes of the ideal face based on those we see around us, rather they build them based on those to whom we have a strongly positive relationship.”
Although no one yet knows for sure why females show these preferences, a woman with a great dad may choose a similar-looking mate in the hopes that he will also be a good father, the researchers wrote.
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"She's a daddy's girl. Unfortunately, her father is Arnold Schwarzenegger and no man can measure up. So at 66, she's still single.""Why can't cats and mice learn to get along?"
"The father-daughter relationship was marred by the fact that the father was very strict."
"Cindy has the same facial characteristics as her grandmother, but doesn't look at all like her mom."
"The anthropologist decided on his major after failing all his sociology courses."
"The scholar became curious what an untrained anthropologist is."
"We did a random study of students who ate Belgian chocolate ice cream and concluded that only 10% ate the food unconsciously."
"Mike calculated that if he saved up one percent of his salary every day he could go to Paris in the summer."
"The proportion of the population that was obese was calculated at 44%."
"Vanessa had the babyface features of a movie star."
"Though she had ordinary features, her high cheekbones made her look unusually beautiful."
"His furrowed brow suggested many hours spent in painful reflections on the mystery of existence."
"Tom was so emotionally invested in his bike, that he never allowed anyone to ride it but himself."
"It's not how much time a parent spends with a child but the quality time spent that matters."
"His sobriety reflected positively on his reformed behavior."
"Her spotty classroom attendance negatively affected her grades."
"She had an appealing laugh."
"Elvis Presely had a huge impact on teenagers in the 1950s."
"Hollywood stars, such as Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger, are often considered protypes of masculinity."
"His preferences in music were limited to jazz and blues."
"Harry rated Angelina Jolie among his favorite actresses."
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