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HMM: Study: Women look away more from abnormal babies. ?Puzzling new research suggests women have ?

By Glenn Reynolds

HMM: Study: Women look away more from abnormal babies. “Puzzling new research suggests women have a harder time than men looking at babies with facial birth defects. . . . articipants rated each baby’s attractiveness on a scale of zero to 100, and used keystrokes to make the photo stay on the screen longer or disappear faster. Women pressed the keys 2.5 times more than men to make photos of babies with the facial abnormalities disappear, researchers reported in PLoS One, a journal of the Public Library of Science. That’s even though they rated those babies no less attractive than the men had.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 24, 2009 (boomark / email).