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According to a recent British study carried out by Durham University, women are more attracted to full-lipped feminine features than they are to rugged square-jawed masculinity.
Some 400 hundred men and women were asked to rate pictures of male faces that had been digitally altered in order to make them appear more feminine or more masculine. They were then asked to attribute personality traits like loyalty, dominance and ambition to the different faces they saw.
The results showed that feminine-looking faces, whose features were finer with wider eyes and thinner more curved eyebrows, were thought to be more faithful and had the best potential as a long-term mate, while the more masculine faces with bigger noses, smaller eyes and thicker eyebrows were seen as dominant and wealthy but less faithful and worse parents.
But most women Gulf Weekly polled couldn’t agree less! While there’s no denying the fresh-faced appeal and boyish good looks of the likes of Hugh Grant and Jude Law, the hard masculine features of Daniel Craig and Sean Bean epitomise that sexy hunter-gatherer ideal.
By Marie-Claire
