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The Sun-Baked Speculator
Tom Ryan
3/31/2005
The Beautiful Face of the Market
Mistress
A recent study of college students using computer-generated faces derived from photos of the participants indicated that participants ranked trustworthiness highest for facial patterns similar to their own, while s-xual attractiveness required facial patterns to be different from their own.
The authors postulate that this is a built in mechanism to avoid inbreeding and promote recombination of DNA.
I wonder if there are patterns in prices that achieve similar effects; that is, does a persistent pattern promote trust in things like 'trend' and does choppiness and reversal initiate feelings of desire to go in and out of positions often? That is, to have s-x with the mistress of the market?
Casual S-x or Wedding Bells? Science Now (05/03/23) excerpts: Like repels like. The computer generated male face on the right is based on the female face on the left. Credit: www.faceresearch.org (...), presented 144 college students with 36 pairs of computer-generated faces. The faces in each pair were of the same race and the opposite s-x as the viewer, but one was manipulated to have facial features more similar to those of the viewer.
(...) faces more trust-worthy if they were like their own. When it came to the prospect of a one-night stand, students found facial similarity a turn-off, (...). She concludes that people are less s-xually attracted to individuals who look like kin in order to avoid inbreeding.