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Casual Sex or Wedding Bells?, Science Now
 









Excerpts:     Like repels like. The computer generated male face on the right is
based on the female face on the left. Credit: www.faceresearch.org     
(...), presented 144 college students with 36 pairs of computer-generated faces.
The faces in each pair were of the same race and the opposite sex as the viewer,
but one was manipulated to have facial features more similar to those of the
viewer.

 (...) faces more trust-worthy if they were like their own. When it came to the
prospect of a one-night stand, students found facial similarity a turn-off,
(...). She concludes that people are less sexually attracted to individuals who
look like kin in order to avoid inbreeding.
Source: Casual Sex or Wedding Bells?[
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2005/323/5?etoc ], Science
Now, 05/03/23

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