Face important than body shape - newspaper Nordland

It’s unfair, but some people are simply more beautiful than others.

particular face appears to be important when men shall determine whether a woman is attractive or not.

– The face is important, and more important than body shape, says the Finnish evolutionary biologist Markus Rantala of the University of Turku to Forskning.no

Stress and fat determines

52 female students participated in the experiment. 18 heterosexual male students gave them character from -5 (very unattractive) to 5 (very attractive). Forkeren found a clear correlation between the level of stress hormones and fat percentage in the face.

Stressed women score lowest, researchers found that the higher the level of stress hormones was, the lower the women were ranked.

– It really is logical, because we know that stress hormones inhibit the female sex hormone, and high stress levels can make women infertile, says Rantala.

Neither thick or thin

For fat percentage was different context:

Both too much and too little fat in the facial tissue was perceived as unattractive.

researchers believe it may reflect a more general health picture, namely that it is both unhealthy to be too thin and too thick.

Stress makes ugly

study concludes simply that:

– If a woman wants to look attractive out, she should try to keep stress levels down, says the researcher.