{"id":6701,"date":"2010-04-19T17:39:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T17:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6701"},"modified":"2010-10-04T01:06:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T01:06:42","slug":"why-are-mixed-race-people-perceived-as-more-attractive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6701","title":{"rendered":"Why are mixed-race people perceived as more attractive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perceptionweb.com\/abstract.cgi?id=p6626\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Why are mixed-race people perceived as more attractive?<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perceptionweb.com\/P.html\" target=\"_blank\">Perception<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.perceptionweb.com\/contents.cgi?journal=P&amp;volume=39&amp;issue=1\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 39, Issue 1<\/a> (2010)<br \/>\npages 136-138<br \/>\nISSN: 0301-0066 (print), 1468-4233 (electronic)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/psych\/contactsandpeople\/lecturing\/lewis-michael-dr-overview_new.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael B. Lewis<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Lecturer of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>Cardiff University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previous, small scale, studies have suggested that people of mixed race are perceived as being more attractive than non-mixed-race people. Here, it is suggested that the reason for this is the genetic process of heterosis or hybrid vigour (ie cross-bred offspring have greater genetic fitness than pure-bred offspring). A random sample of 1205 black, white, and mixed-race faces was collected. These faces were then rated for their perceived attractiveness. There was a small but highly significant effect, with mixed-race faces, on average, being perceived as more attractive. This result is seen as a perceptual demonstration of heterosis in humans\u2014a biological process that may have implications far beyond just attractiveness.<\/p>\n<p><em>Access to the full article requires a <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perceptionweb.com\/subscriptions.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>subscription<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Read a pre-publication version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cf.ac.uk\/psych\/home2\/papers\/lewis\/44%20Lewis%20Mixed%20Race%20(Perception%202010).pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are mixed-race people perceived as more attractive? Perception Volume 39, Issue 1 (2010) pages 136-138 ISSN: 0301-0066 (print), 1468-4233 (electronic) Michael B. Lewis, Senior Lecturer of Psychology Cardiff University Previous, small scale, studies have suggested that people of mixed race are perceived as being more attractive than non-mixed-race people. Here, it is suggested that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,394,10],"tags":[2817,2816,2818],"class_list":["post-6701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-new-media","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-michael-b-lewis","tag-michael-lewis","tag-perception"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}