{"id":6703,"date":"2010-04-19T17:52:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T17:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6703"},"modified":"2010-04-19T17:56:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T17:56:29","slug":"mixed-race-people-perceived-as-%e2%80%98more-attractive%e2%80%99-uk-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6703","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-Race People Perceived as \u2018More Attractive,\u2019 UK Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/04\/100414092523.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed-Race People Perceived as \u2018More Attractive,\u2019 UK Study Finds<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Science Daily<\/a><br \/>\n2010-04-14<\/p>\n<p>In the largest study of its kind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/psych\/contactsandpeople\/lecturing\/lewis-michael-dr-overview_new.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Michael Lewis<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/psych\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cardiff University&#8217;s School of Psychology<\/a>, collected a random sample of 1205 black, white, and mixed-race faces.<\/p>\n<p>Each face was then rated for their perceived attractiveness to others &#8212; with mixed-race faces, on average, being perceived as being more attractive.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Lewis, who will present his findings to the British Psychological Society&#8217;s annual meeting (April 14) said: &#8220;Previous, small scale, studies have suggested that people of mixed race are perceived as being more attractive than non-mixed-race people. This study was an attempt to put this to the wider test.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A random sample of black, white, and mixed-race faces was collected and rated for their perceived attractiveness. There was a small but highly significant effect, with mixed-race faces, on average, being perceived as more attractive.&#8221;..<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/04\/100414092523.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed-Race People Perceived as \u2018More Attractive,\u2019 UK Study Finds Science Daily 2010-04-14 In the largest study of its kind Dr. Michael Lewis of Cardiff University&#8217;s School of Psychology, collected a random sample of 1205 black, white, and mixed-race faces. Each face was then rated for their perceived attractiveness to others &#8212; with mixed-race faces, on [&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":[2817,2816,2819],"class_list":["post-6703","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-science-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703","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=6703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}