Beauty or Beast? Why Perceptions of Attractiveness Vary

If you ask these questions to a group of people, they may have different answers, and a new study hints at why: Your perception of other people's attractiveness is mainly the result of your own experiences. In the study of twins, researchers found that a person's environment plays a bigger role than genes in shaping whom they find attractive. The idea that beauty is in the eye of the beholder has been around for a long time, said Laura Germine, a psychiatric researcher at Massachusetts General H