Scientists Study Who Actually Likes Lip Filler

Image by Kevin Winter via Getty / Futurism Studies As cosmetic procedures surge in popularity, lip fillers have never been more ubiquitous — but men, apparently, are not impressed. In a new study out of the University of Sydney, psychological researchers looked gender differences in whether thinner or plumper lips are considered more attractive. Intriguingly, men tended to prefer images of women with thinner or unaltered lips — but women preferred plumper lips in other women and thinner lips in men. Using what the school calls "digitally manipulated proxy image[s] for a human face," the researchers spoke to 32 students recruited from their psychology classes — 16 men and 16 women — about lip size and perceived attractiveness. The students were, as the paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B explains, shown 168 of these digitally altered images in quick succession on a loop. With less than two seconds to decide what was hot and what was not, these strange, ... Read full article.