Posted by: Nepe June 13, 2007
Women Prefer Men Who Look Like Dad Melinda Wenner
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Captain, My instinct, experience and some readings says that it is broad general facial familiarity rather than the father-specific facial familiarity that might be linked to a daughter's or anybody's sexual or any other attractions. I will have to see the whole data from Lynda's paper to comment specifically (the paper is still 'in press'). However, I can see two possible methodological shortcomings right away. One, perhaps the most serious one, is lack of non-father control, and, two, just a logical one, the possibility that the partial feature of a face might not represent the effect of a total face of the father. So there is a pretty good chance that the Freudian link might be an erroneous overstretch. But interesting anyway. Nepe
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