The eyes have it: Limbal rings and attraction
The eyes have it: Limbal rings and attraction
- November 23, 2017
- Darren Peshek, cog sci alumni, via Psychology Today, Nov. 23, 2017
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In 2011, Darren Peshek and colleagues from the University of California at Irvine
ran a study in which they tampered with the limbal ring: the slightly darker ring
that runs around the outside of most people’s irises... He found that both men and
women preferred the faces with the dark limbal ring.
For the full story, please visit https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/attraction-evolved/201711/the-eyes-have-it-limbal-rings-and-attraction.
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