Scientists have found that men who find women extremely attractive look into their eyes for an average of 8.2 seconds.
If it last just four seconds, he may not be all that impressed. But if it breaks the 8.2 second barrier, he could already be in love they say.
However, the same behavior is not true for women, who tend to look at men for roughly the same amount of time, whether they find them physically attractive or not.
The researchers from Radboud and Vrije University in Holland and Queen’s University in Ontario believe that men use physical attractiveness to gauge whether a potential partner is healthy and fertile.
Hidden cameras were used to secretly track the eye movements of 115 students as they spoke to actors and actresses. They were then asked to rate their conversation partner’s attractiveness.
The men looked into the eyes of actresses they considered beautiful for an average of 8.2 seconds, but that dropped to 4.5 seconds when gazing at those they rated less attractive, the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior reported.
According to the researchers the difference in man and women’s gazes could be based on evolutionary factors.
They wrote: “Facial physical attractiveness signals mate quality – genetic quality and fertility – which ultimately increases offspring viability.
“Due to the sex differences in parental investment and the physical risks, the potential consequences of engaging in intimate relationships are more profound for women.”
They added: “In this study, we were able to demonstrate opposite-sex beauty catches the male eye longer than the female’s.
“The results fit nicely with the suggestion men engage in overt, proactive, mating strategies while women have more covert, cautious strategies. ‘
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