Do you and your mates find yourself fancying the same people All. The. Time? Thought you might. It's such a cockblock if you and your mate are trying to pull the same person, but it turns out there's an actual scientific reason for it.
An article in The Times has reported on research presented at an exhibition at the Royal Society of London yesterday, which has found that a man whose peers 'go for' blonde women, that man is more likely to think of blonde women as more beautiful, compared to brunettes. The same was also found to be true for women, too. Lisa DeBrune, co-head of the University of Glasgow's Face Research Lab, coined the term the 'Angelina Jolie' effect; the idea that people form their perception of what's attractive from those around them.
Lisa explains, 'If you stare of Angelina Jolie's face for too long everybody else's lips starts to look abnormally thin.' In other words, whatever we get used to seeing as 'good looking', will inevitably impact on what an individual finds attractive. Hence why we're all pretty much in love with Harry Styles - because everyone else is.
The article went on to reference a study that's due to be published in the British Journal of Pscyhology later this year which found that young women are likely to be attracted to men who are favoured by their popular peers. So if they see a glamorous or popular woman smiling (or. alternatively, being disgusted) at a man, it will influence the other women's perception of that person. Basically we're all just really really impressionable, which isn't really all that surprising is it? Sigh.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.