Saturday, June 16, 2012

David Perrett: eat fruit, be beautiful.

David Perrett knows what women want - as far as faces are concerned.

People get an impression of people from your face. The structure of your face affects how people see you and what they think. So is there nothing you can do? Fortunately, that is not the case: your consumption of fruit, believe it or not, can affect how people evaluate your beauty.

Doctors advise you to eat five pieces of fruit and vegetables. Apart from being good for longevity and health, the nutritients in the fruit give colour to your face, making it look more healthy and beautiful to others.

I like your face, I'll vote for you
It is quite obvious we take face features into account when we evaluate people's beauty. But face characteristics affect our judgment of people in many other regards. For instance, people with wide faces are seen as more exploitative and less trustworthy.

David Perrett has also studied the looks of our leaders. We already know that people prefer taller leaders over short leaders. But even their height is reflected in the shape of a face: facial structures already give some indication about the height of a politician.

Ultimately, we might pick our leaders not because their merit and policies. Politicians that look tall will be evaluated more positively. This is even proven by studies where people where asked to compare two pictures of politicians from another country and to decide who would have won. In a significant number of cases, they were right! Democratic elections, this great symbol of modern society, may be more complicated than we think.

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