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Apr 14, 2008 |
Young person is often able to predict the other person's attitude towards short-term or long-term relationships.
The study, including 700 heterosexual participants conducted by a research team from Durham, St Andrews and Aberdeen Universities showed that young men and women are interested in different things when looking for a partner.
Participants were given the facial photographs of the opposite sex to rate their attractiveness and attitude to sex. Men and women who had taken part in the study were asked to choose a person who they felt was interested in short-term relationships, could have sex without love and what face was more attractive for long-term or short-term relationships. Then these answers were compared to the real attitudes and behaviors of the people shown in the photographs.
The study found that most participants were able to say if a person was open to short-term relationships. The results also showed that women who were said to be interested in short-term relationships were perceived as more attractive. Women participants perceived masculine looking men as more interested in short-term relationships. Previous studies also imply that women consider more masculine looking men more unfaithful and generally consider them bad parents.
In general, men prefer women who they thought were open to casual sex and rated them as more attractive, while women were more interested in men who they considered as being inclined to long-term relationships. Women also rated promiscuous-looking men as unattractive for durable and short-term relationships.
Dr Lynda Boothroyd, a leading author of the study explained that most people can judge sexual attitudes of others just by looking at their face and have strong preferences for different types of face.
