Added by Svenne S. on 2010-05-15
Men like blond bombshells. And women want to look like them.
Is this really true?
Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa on Psychology Today argue that it is.
Men prefer young women in part because they tend to be healthier than older women. One accurate indicator of health is hair. Because hair grows slowly, shoulder-length hair reveals several years of a woman’s health status.
Blond hair is unique in that it changes dramatically with age. Typically, light blond hair become brown hair during time. Thus, men who prefer blond women are unconsciously looking for younger and healthier women.
Men also have a universal preference for women with a low waist-to-hip ratio. Those women have an easier time conceiving a child and do so at earlier ages because they have larger amounts of essential reproductive hormones.
How about breasts? Anthropologist Frank Marlowe says that larger breasts sag more with age. Which make it easier for men to judge a woman’s age by sight, suggesting why men find women with large breasts more attractive.
Alternatively, men may prefer women with large breasts for the same reason they prefer women with small waists. A study of Polish women shows that women with large breasts and tight waists have the greatest fecundity, indicated by their levels of reproductive hormones.
Women with blue eyes should not be any different from those with green or brown eyes. Yet preference for blue eyes seems both universal and undeniable. In men as well as women. One explanation is that the human pupil dilates when an individual is exposed to something that she likes. In other words, pupil dilation is an honest indicator of interest and attraction. And the size of the pupil is easiest to decide in blue eyes.
So, blue-eyed people are considered attractive as potential mates because it is easiest to decide whether they are interested in us or not.
Source: psychologytoday.com
