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Last updated at 1:26 AM on 30th June 2009
Men agree on what is attractive in the opposite sex far more than women do, says a study.
The survey of 4,000 adults found that most men liked women who were thin and posing seductively.
Women, in contrast, were enticed by a far wider range of male characteristics.
The results could explain why women feel pressured to conform to a narrow view of attractiveness, and suffer more eating disorders, the scientists said.
Men's judgments of women were based primarily around physical features, with a preference for the thin.
As a group, the women rating men showed some preference for thin, muscular subjects, but disagreed on how attractive many men in the study were.
Some gave high ratings to men that other women said were not attractive at all.
The study by U.S psychologists appears in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
