Studying in single-sex schools can have a significant impact on who you find attractive, claims a new study.
The study suggests that female students surrounded every day by girls are more attracted to feminine looking boys, such as High School Musical star Zac Efron.
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Lead researcher and psychologist Dr Tamsin Saxton in collaboration with the universities of Aberdeen, Stirling and Liverpool have, however, found the effect was weakened if children had siblings of the opposite sex at home.
"The research is evidence that a person's 'visual diet' can influence what they think is attractive," the Scotsman quoted Saxton as saying.
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The faces had been digitally manipulated to look subtly more masculine or feminine.
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"Interestingly, the weakest effect of 'visual diet' was in relation to boys' judgments of girls' faces," Saxton said.
"This might be because femininity is such an overriding cue to female facial attractiveness, or perhaps because even at a single-sex school boys see more female faces around them, in their teachers and so on," Saxton added.
"This kind of study helps researchers understand how the brain processes faces. Faces are crucial to our everyday interactions, and the brain has specialised areas dedicated to dealing with them," said Dr Anthony Little, of Stirling University.
The findings are published in the scientific journal Personality and Individual Differences.
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