Brock Univ's recent research on Man's face and aggresion

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Dear AIA members,

 

I posted this message on my group. Just forwarding the same.

 

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a_quest_beyond_astrology , " Souvik Dutta "

<explore_vulcan wrote:

 

Dear members,

 

Facts cannot be neglected and Brock Univ came out with its set of

facts relating agression and face of a man.

 

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14563-aggression-written-in-the-

shape-of-a-mans-face-.html?feedId=online-news_rss20

 

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No matter how hard men try, they may not be able to hide their

aggression. A study in male ice-hockey players suggests that to gauge

a man's aggression levels, you just have to look at the proportions

of his face.

 

Cheryl McCormick and Justin Carre from Brock University in Ontario,

Canada, found that the larger the width-to-height ratio of a player's

face, the more aggressive they were.

 

They measured aggression by the number of penalty points each player

accrued for potentially harmful behaviour, such as elbowing and

fighting.

 

In general, men's faces tend to have a larger width-to-height ratio

than women's. This physical characteristic has been linked to higher

levels of testosterone, which in turn is linked to aggressive

behaviour.

 

Most people would not want to pick a fight with a big, brawny man,

but because facial ratio is not linked to body size, it may have been

favoured by evolution to warn others of an aggressive personality

they would not want to tangle with.

 

Real world results

Although the team first found the result in a study of students

playing computer games, McCormick says they were " astounded to see

that the measure could predict aggressive behaviour in a 'real world'

setting " .

 

Previous studies on facial metrics have suggested that women can tell

whether a man wants children just by looking at their photograph. Now

McCormick's study raises the question of whether people can spot

these subtle facial differences and use it to guide everyday

behaviour.

 

" If someone was given the choice of one of two opponents to compete

against who differed on the basis of the facial metric, would the

facial metric predict the less aggressive opponent? " asks McCormick.

 

She believes that people's faces may be influencing who we chose to

socialise with on a daily basis.

 

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There is a reference of this in the Indian Ancient texts called

Samudrika Shastra.

 

More on this later...

 

Views welcome...

 

Souvik