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The Gender Attractiveness Gap: Why Beauty Depends on the Rater
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A large cross-cultural analysis finds a robust 'gender attractiveness gap': women are consistently rated more attractive than men across cultures and age groups. Curiously, the gap is even more pronounced when women do the rating. Facial shape dimorphism and averageness explain only part of it, leading the authors to argue that beauty perception is a mix of biology and culture, not biology…