People's tendency to date each other depends on similar levels of physical attractiveness and attrective people are more particular about the physical attarectiveness of their suitors.Columbia University study has revealed that people prefer to date with persons who are more attractive than they are.
The researchers took two sets of data from a dating website hotornot.com in which one set contained members' dating requests and the other contained the attractiveness ratings of other members.
Both data sets also included ratings of members’ own attractiveness as rated by other members.
The results showed obvious facts. Males were more influenced by their date's physical attractiveness but less affected by how attractive they themselves were.
The research team also observed that regardless of how attractive people themselves were, they seem to judge others’ attractiveness in similar ways, supporting the notion that people have largely universal, culturally independent standards of beauty like symmetric faces.
The researchers say that people's own attractiveness does not affect their judgement
of other's attractiveness.
In a follow-up speed-dating study, the researcher observed that more attractive people placed more weight on physical attractiveness in selecting their dates, while
less attractive people placed more weight on other qualities like sense of humour.
