New neuroscience research reveals how our brain reacts to facial attractiveness

When we look at human faces, our brain has different responses depending on how attractive we find them, according to new research published in Biological Psychology. However, these responses are only observed when looking at faces of the gender that you are sexually attracted to. The study also discovered that these responses to facial attractiveness occur in a specific sequence, which suggests that our brain goes through distinct stages of processing when evaluating how attractive a face is. The authors of the new study were interested in studying the perception of attractiveness and its imp...