Love as science? Yes as hard as it is to believe there are actually studies done on love. Love is a powerful emotion that we all hope to find the true form of one day. Some people are lucky and find love early on which lasts forever, some people find temporary love, and some people go a whole life time without experiencing real love. But have you ever wondered what makes you attracted to someone. Yes variables such as if they are funny, tall, and long hair may make you find someone attractive but there are also scientific explanations on why we gain long lasting love.
From my research I have found that it only takes in between 90 seconds to 4 minutes to fall in love. One of the most surprising stats that I have found was that primarily we show our attraction to others through body language. In fact, 55 percent is shown through body language, 38 percent through your tone in voice, and only 7 percent is for what we say. Learning this makes me think about, the expression actions speaks louder than words.
What is more interesting is that humans find beauty as being Symmetrical. Studies have proven this theory that more often than none people are more attracted to people with symmetrical facial structure. Furthermore, it is not only facial symmetric that attracts people but it is also symmetrical body shape and hair also attracts people. In fact, women have more orgasms with men who have more symmetrical bodies.
However, another study done by a New York Photographer, Alex Beck, shows that the symmetric faces are not always viewed as beauty. Some people look less attractive, faces looked distorted, and unhuman. Beck was able to show this by mirroring one half of someone’s face to create a perfect symmetrical reflection of the other half of the person’s face.
You can go to this website http://www.anaface.com/ to upload your picture and it will generate a score on how beautiful you are based on how symmetric your face is. The website also gives you advice on how to make your face more symmetrical to enhance your beauty.
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This conclusion was done by a study of putting two people in the room and having them stare at one another. Without any words involved these people were asked if they found any attraction to one another. The results showed a correlation that people person found the people that had a more symmetrical face to be attractive. This can rule out reverse correlation because attractiveness cannot cause others face’s to be symmetrical. However, there could be third confounding variables which is why I also included in the other study that people found some people to be less attractive with perfectly symmetrical face when using a mirror to create that image because yes you are right no one’s face is perfectly symmetrical. Thus, other unforeseen variables may be involved that causes others to like other people.
While I do not necessarily believe that a study can be done to prove that people can fall in love in 90 seconds to 4 minutes, it is very interesting that they could come to that conclusion. Did that conclusion come from people basing love off of looks? What was the study that was done to find that? Falling in love is not based on looks of symmetry, however I do believe that beauty is found in imperfections. Nobody’s face is perfectly symmetrical because that’s not how we are supposed to look. Here are some pictures that have been edited to show celebrities with perfectly symmetrical faces. Most of them look pretty funny!