Parent's Day

Today, Parent’s Day, we discussed how physical features can affect who you will mate with. We tested this by looking at a pictures, each was the same person side by side, but one was slightly altered to make the person look more masculine or feminine. We discovered that men will always view more feminine women as more attractive, because they have higher levels of estrogen. We also discovered that women will view more feminine women as more attractive because we are aware of their high estrogen level and automatically view them as competition. When it came to deciding between men, the results were varied. Women that are ovulating found more masculine men more attractive, because they want to reproduce with the most masculine, high in testosterone male. However, when women are not ovulating, they often find a more feminine male as more attractive because they view him as being softer and more loving. Males that are self-confident and sure of themselves view masculine men as more attractive because they do not see them as a threat to their self-esteem. However, men who are not as confident will view more feminine men as more attractive because they don’t threaten them.