by Anita D.
Member since:
February 16, 2006

Facial attractiveness and interracial marriage

February 19, 2012 09:27 PM UTC
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There are some research papers that you just know are going to be provocative just from the titles. 

 

Ever read a study and said 'wait a minute"?  This is one of them - even reading just the abstract before getting to the particulars of the research that follows the abstract conclusions I found myself saying how did they go about (method) getting this information. 

 

 

Read it. 

 

 

 Am I right or wrong - I did not see the correlation between the study and relationships let alone what it had to do with marriage choices.  Kind of like showing some a basket of fruit then saying and that's why folks eat more apples than pomegranites.

 

 

Am I right - another flawed study

Your thougts?

 

 

 This is one of them: A Facial Attractiveness Account of Gender Asymmetries in Interracial Marriage.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0031703

 

Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog Facial attractiveness and interracial marriage

http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2012/02/facial-attractiveness-and-interracial.html

 

 

Comments: 14

Larry H. Feb 19, 2012, 9:33pm UTC
thanks for sharin
Mary Ann Slavcheff Feb 19, 2012, 9:38pm UTC
"Attractiveness" needs to be defined.
That said:
There really is more biology in our choices of a mate than you might suspect. For instance, why do men prefer women with long blond hair? Blond hair darkens when a woman gets older. Therefore, a woman's age is evident in the hair. Healthy hair is evidence of a healthy body and long hair is evidence of years of good health.

Of course, all that is nonsense now. Women can color their hair or wear wigs.
Anita D. Feb 21, 2012, 9:46pm UTC
Mary Ann -

I agree that biology plays a big role. I think that is why I was expecting more os this study - that and it was on a neuro-science blog.
Dennis Gilman Feb 19, 2012, 10:45pm UTC
A pile of manure. Men have individual preferences that defy explanation. I much prefer dark skinned women, others prefer light skinned ones. I prefer meat on my woman, others prefer the thinner ones, I have no hair colour preference, but other do. Asian look better when young, but Africans keep their looks longer, so I go for the African. That last one is the only one that has any semblance of logic to it.

Any way, look at this:
Anita D. Feb 21, 2012, 9:44pm UTC
Make-up is an art.
Kathryn Flynn Feb 20, 2012, 5:24am UTC
The study is incredibly poorly designed. People prefer beautiful faces, but the definition of beauty differs widely. And marital choice is complex; parenting plays a large part in whom we want.
Anita D. Feb 21, 2012, 9:42pm UTC
Kathyrn - why were the supervising instructors not all over this one?
elizabeth evans Feb 20, 2012, 5:39am UTC
Interesting studies.

Thanks for sharing with Triple Name Club.
Pam Brittain Feb 20, 2012, 1:36pm UTC
Thanks for sharing.
Susan G. Feb 21, 2012, 7:38am UTC
Sounds like someone was grasping for a subject.
Anita D. Feb 21, 2012, 9:41pm UTC
Susan I was astonished when I read the study. It was so deeply flawed in my opinion that I wondered how a university would saction it.
Susan G. Feb 22, 2012, 9:52am UTC
Does not say much for the university does it?
Anita D. Feb 21, 2012, 9:40pm UTC
I always thought I probably was attracted to my former husband because he had dark hair and olive skin like my father. My father had jet black hair, green-gray eyes and tanned easily.

I looked for the positive traits I liked in my family members.
Ms Lee P. Feb 29, 2012, 9:54pm UTC
LOL! I'm not too sure that I completely understand what they were doing. It sounds like what a friend of mine used to do before we all had computers ... she used to make up her own statics to fit any situation because she always said one no would ever check anyway. LOL! LOL!

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