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Male beauty ratings reveal lower averages but an exceptional upper tier
Women's faces are rated as more attractive than men's across cultures, age groups and sexual orientations.
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Women's faces are rated as more attractive than men's across cultures, age groups and sexual orientations. This effect, known as the "Gender Attractiveness Gap" (GAP), was recently demonstrated in a large-scale study led by the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. A new article in Current Opinion in Psychology takes a closer look at the underlying data.
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