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	<title>Comments on: &#8216;Face-Blind&#8217; are Poor at Judging Facial Attractiveness</title>
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		<title>By: Todd</title>
		<link>http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/10/face-blind-are-poor-at-judging-facial.php/comment-page-1#comment-21999</link>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ive noticed that I think everyone looks familiar to me if if met them or not.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ive noticed that I think everyone looks familiar to me if if met them or not.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeremy (PsyBlog author)</title>
		<link>http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/10/face-blind-are-poor-at-judging-facial.php/comment-page-1#comment-20676</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy (PsyBlog author)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Joe, no not for a class - for you dear reader(s)! More about me on my &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spring.org.uk/2004/01/about-this-blog.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;about page&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Joe, no not for a class - for you dear reader(s)! More about me on my <a href="http://www.spring.org.uk/2004/01/about-this-blog.php" rel="nofollow">about page</a>.</p>
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		<title>By: Joe</title>
		<link>http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/10/face-blind-are-poor-at-judging-facial.php/comment-page-1#comment-20673</link>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jeremy,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am assuming this study was for a class you are taking?! What year are you in? Graduate or undergrad?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jeremy,</p>
<p>I am assuming this study was for a class you are taking?! What year are you in? Graduate or undergrad?</p>
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		<title>By: Jeremy (PsyBlog author)</title>
		<link>http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/10/face-blind-are-poor-at-judging-facial.php/comment-page-1#comment-20663</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy (PsyBlog author)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Joe, good points about the relative nature of beauty. Still, for my thought experiment I wanted to imagine people were completely blind to attractivity. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thinking about it again, though, perhaps it would be completely impossible because people would always find a way to differentiate between each other. People would begin to fetishize the tiniest differences between people. For example slight differences in the tone of their voice, behaviour such as dominance or aggressivity. Maybe there&#039;s no meaningful way to talk about people without some variability in attractivity built in?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Joe, good points about the relative nature of beauty. Still, for my thought experiment I wanted to imagine people were completely blind to attractivity. </p>
<p>Thinking about it again, though, perhaps it would be completely impossible because people would always find a way to differentiate between each other. People would begin to fetishize the tiniest differences between people. For example slight differences in the tone of their voice, behaviour such as dominance or aggressivity. Maybe there's no meaningful way to talk about people without some variability in attractivity built in?</p>
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		<title>By: Joe</title>
		<link>http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/10/face-blind-are-poor-at-judging-facial.php/comment-page-1#comment-20659</link>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Does anyone propose creating a pill to make sure the &quot;face-blind&quot; do not accidentally marry someone ugly? Here is a more interesting question - who is doing the study, and why are they doing the study. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, what is beautiful? There is a general belief that beauty is balance. There is also a belief that human beings tend to be drawn to the un-common (rare) - hence in a community were everyone is starving to death the fat women is desired. In our society were fat is pretty common, we look up at toothpicks. Also, one should make the distinction between current societal fetish and beauty. We used to think Marylin was the tops, now we might consider her fat.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Does anyone propose creating a pill to make sure the "face-blind" do not accidentally marry someone ugly? Here is a more interesting question - who is doing the study, and why are they doing the study. </p>
<p>Also, what is beautiful? There is a general belief that beauty is balance. There is also a belief that human beings tend to be drawn to the un-common (rare) - hence in a community were everyone is starving to death the fat women is desired. In our society were fat is pretty common, we look up at toothpicks. Also, one should make the distinction between current societal fetish and beauty. We used to think Marylin was the tops, now we might consider her fat.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeremy (PsyBlog author)</title>
		<link>http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/10/face-blind-are-poor-at-judging-facial.php/comment-page-1#comment-20644</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy (PsyBlog author)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Me, not conclusions, these are just a few &#039;creative&#039; speculations. If you&#039;d like to recommend some particular studies for me to cover here, please do comment below or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spring.org.uk/email-me&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;email them&lt;/a&gt; to me. Thanks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Me, not conclusions, these are just a few 'creative' speculations. If you'd like to recommend some particular studies for me to cover here, please do comment below or <a href="http://www.spring.org.uk/email-me" rel="nofollow">email them</a> to me. Thanks.</p>
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		<title>By: me</title>
		<link>http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/10/face-blind-are-poor-at-judging-facial.php/comment-page-1#comment-20643</link>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>prosopagnosia is a very challenging disorder, I wouldn&#039;t jump to any conclusions about the positive aspects it could invite. Waite&#039;s research from Barton&#039;s lab has yet to be replicated and there are serious considerations regarding the objectivity of the control.  Check out some of the other (perhaps less sexy) research from the HVAC lab.  It would be nice to see some real solid research make it on to a site for the public.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>prosopagnosia is a very challenging disorder, I wouldn't jump to any conclusions about the positive aspects it could invite. Waite's research from Barton's lab has yet to be replicated and there are serious considerations regarding the objectivity of the control.  Check out some of the other (perhaps less sexy) research from the HVAC lab.  It would be nice to see some real solid research make it on to a site for the public.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeremy (PsyBlog author)</title>
		<link>http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/10/face-blind-are-poor-at-judging-facial.php/comment-page-1#comment-20631</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy (PsyBlog author)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anon, perhaps people are so busy fighting with their partner they forget to go to war? I&#039;m clutching at straws here!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anon, perhaps people are so busy fighting with their partner they forget to go to war? I'm clutching at straws here!</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/10/face-blind-are-poor-at-judging-facial.php/comment-page-1#comment-20629</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You assume that marriage creates peace?!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You assume that marriage creates peace?!</p>
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		<title>By: Ryan</title>
		<link>http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/10/face-blind-are-poor-at-judging-facial.php/comment-page-1#comment-20627</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Conversely, I tend to find people that I know better more attractive.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Conversely, I tend to find people that I know better more attractive.</p>
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