Why A Baby May Find Robert Pattinson Attractive
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Several years ago, I saw a special on Discovery Channel where the science of beauty was discussed. One of the portions showed a test wherein babies, who, presumably had no concept of beauty, were used as test subjects. The test measured their response through the length of their attention, eye movement, etc., when shown a series of pictures of different faces.
Nancy Etcoff discussed such a kind of experiment at length in her book ‘Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty.’
“Psychologist Judith Langlois collected hundreds of slides of people’s faces and asked adults to rate them for attractiveness. When she presented these faces to three- and six-month-old babies, they stared significantly longer at the faces that adults found attractive. The babies gauged beauty in diverse faces: they looked longer at the most attractive men, women, babies, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and Caucasians. This suggests not only that babies have beauty detectors but that human faces may share universal features of beauty across their varied features.
“Babies pay close attention to the human face. Within ten minutes of emerging from the mother’s body, their eyes follow a line drawing of a face. By day two they can discriminate their mother’s face from a face they have never seen before. The next day they begin mimicking facial actions: stick out your tongue at a newborn and the baby will do the same. Each newborn orients immediately toward whatever is biologically significant, and topmost will be people who ensure her survival.”
The Sunday Herald reported that Dr. Alan Slater, a psychology lecturer in child infancy at Exeter University discovered the same thing when 100 babies up to the age of three days were shown images of models and non-models.
“They would spend 60-65% of the time looking at the attractive face,” Slater said.
“Our understanding is that babies like to look at attractive faces because they most resembles the prototype they’ve got in their brains.
“Given that we’ve found this in newborn infants who haven’t seen that many faces it suggests that they come into the world with an in- built representation of a face which happens to correspond to an attractive face.”
Robert Pattinson Gets the BABY STAMP Well, I thought this might partially explain the strong reaction of the toddler described in the series of Twilighter Inspired Scripts — Baby Girl Goes Gaga Over Robert Pattinson #1
Okay, so far, men, women, teens, tweens, Kristen Stewart and a baby are gaga over Robert Pattinson. A pretty long and impressive list, if I do say so myself. 
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June 15th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Lorna thanks for putting a scientific twist! That is so true. So I guess that’s why DD acts this way
June 15th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
You’re welcome, Isabel. I’ve always found this subject fascinating, and, I thought it was timely to share a snippet.
June 16th, 2009 at 2:00 am
That’s Soo CUTE
June 16th, 2009 at 4:00 am
a scientific turn on views from the eyes of a child… interesting hehe