Scientists have found that beautiful faces are quickly forgotten, but the ugly long remain in the memory. So today's sex symbols 20-30 years already and can not remember the face.
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Researchers from the University of Jena in Germany, conducted an experiment which showed that
ugly face memorize much more than beautiful. The volunteers were shown a series of pictures, and each picture showed a few seconds. Then the old pictures show them again already with new people to be able to determine whether they know someone or not. Scientists themselves the final result of the experiment greatly surprised.
Remember person
"Until now we have assumed that people much easier memorize faces cute and attractive, just because we like them, - says study author Dr. Holger Weisz. - But it turned out that the most memorable faces ugly and unattractive. I think that when you look at the people we are a pretty strong emotional impact that affects the recognition process in the future. "
The same is shown and EEG, which were taken from all participants of the experiment register faces . They showed increased electrical activity in the brain when people are looking at an attractive person. Subsequently, this led to a significant number of false positive results when re-recognition, when volunteers were called erroneously unfamiliar pretty faces before seen.
By the way, recently, scientists from the University of Essex found that beautiful people make a successful career, and it continues even at a time when, due to the age of beauty begins to fade. (READ MORE)
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