Many homicides that occur are about a man who discovers that his wife is going to leave him, or cheated on him, etc. But what exactly captivated the man into falling in love with his wife? Well, we all know the old saying 'beauty is more than skin deep' which I find to be very true but what initially gives us the curiosity to walk up to someone and start a conversation? Is it their intriguing personality? I don't think so, only because you've never actually talked to them before!
I had learned last year in my AP Psych class that people are subconsciously attracted to those who have a very symmetrical face and body. This was also mentioned in Murderer Next Door talking about how the genes are passed on more by symmetrically faced people. (Take a look at the picture and tell me which one do you find more attractive?)
But as I read, to me it seems like an odd thing to claim. We all like different things, one girl may love a guys haircut, and the next finds it ugly and unattractive. Or one guy may like girls with smaller noses and another be subconsciously more attracted to women with slightly larger ones. But this article from the Telegraph in the UK makes a slightly different claim. They say that symmetry of physical features isn't something that makes us more attracted to someone, it instead tells us that that person is more fertile, or has a better ability to pass on offspring. Whether or not that's true-well, I'll just leave that up for you to decide because we are all different people with different likes and dislikes.
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