Beauty lies in the size of your limbal rings
Beauty lies in the size of your limbal rings
- October 21, 2011
- Research by Darren Peshek, cognitive sciences graduate student, is featured in the Huffington Post October 20, 2011
From the Huffington Post:
Of all the qualities that give an attractive person an edge, here's one that you've
likely overseen: the limbal ring, the dark circle around the iris. The limbal ring
is the line that separates the colored part of the eye from the white (the sclera).
It's completely unconscious, the way we judge others' limbal rings. In the 20 milliseconds
or so it takes to assess a person's attractiveness, you're factoring in the size and
shade of her limbal rings. The bigger and blacker they are, the more attractive the
eyes. People with the prettiest eyes often have the most prominent limbal rings. This,
anyhow, is the upshot of a recent study by Darren Peshek and his colleagues at the
department of cognitive science at the University of California at Irvine. The researchers
showed volunteers 80 pairs of male and female faces. Each pair of faces was identical
except the eyes: One had dark limbal rings and the other had no limbal rings. The
volunteers were asked to pick which face was more attractive and to indicate their
degree of preference.
For the full story, please visit http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jena-pincott/limbal-rings-attractiveness_b....
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