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People Assume Men With This Face Shape Are Better Protectors, Psychologists Say
We’re all out here making weird split-second decisions about each other, aren’t we?
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There are men walking around with faces that make strangers assume they’d be good at protecting children and making good fathers. They don’t have to say anything. They don’t have to do anything. It happens in a split second when someone looks at them.
A new study in Evolutionary Psychological Science found that men with wider faces were consistently judged as stronger protectors of children than nurturers. The researchers were looking at facial width-to-height ratio, which compares cheek-to-cheek width with the distance from the upper lip to the brow. Past research has linked wider male faces with perceptions of strength and........