Mixed race people really are more attractive! Research shows that stars like Kim Kardashian and Zayn Malik look better

From Kim Kardashian to Zayn Malik, many of Hollywood’s most glamorous stars are mixed race.

Now a study has confirmed that mixed people really are more attractive.

Researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong asked Asian and white participants to rate photos of people in different categories.

The results showed that mixed-race people were not only rated as more attractive, but also as more trustworthy, intelligent and likely to be more successful than others.

“Biracial images lead to more positive social judgments via greater trustworthiness and attractiveness,” the team wrote in their study.

From Kim Kardashian to Zayn Malik, many of Hollywood’s most glamorous stars are mixed race. Now a study has confirmed that biracial people really are more attractive

The 2021 UK Census found that mixed race is the third largest and fastest growing ethnic minority group in Britain.

In fact, some forecasts estimate that by the end of the century around one in three of the UK population will be of mixed race, with this figure rising to 75 percent by 2150.

Despite these numbers, there has been surprisingly little research on how people perceive mixed-race faces across cultures.

Writing in their study, published in Evolutionary psychologyThe researchers, led by XT Wang, explained: ‘Although race may not be an evolutionary standard variable for social perception, racial traits can be used as cues for social categorization, intergroup relations, likely coalitional cooperation, and genetic interbreedability.’

The team recruited 227 participants from the US and 116 participants from China for the study.

Participants were shown seven pairs of faces (one female and one male in each pair), ranging from 100 percent Asian to 100 percent Caucasian, including distorted biracial composites of 30 percent, 40 percent, 50 percent, 60 percent. percent, and 70 percent white or Asian.

Participants were shown seven pairs of faces (one female and one male in each pair), ranging from 100 percent Asian to 100 percent Caucasian, including distorted biracial composites of 30 percent, 40 percent, 50 percent, 60 percent. cent, and 70 percent Caucasian or Asian

For each image, participants were asked to rate the people shown on attractiveness, trustworthiness, health, intelligence and career prospects.

The results showed that biracial faces were rated the highest in all five categories.

Although the reason for these findings remains unclear, the researchers suggest that they may have an evolutionary basis.

“Biracial facial cues indicate that two parents from different biological groups could successfully interbreed, likely cooperated in rearing offspring, and may even have received alloparental support and assistance from one or both groups of origin,” the team wrote.

‘Biracial traits may thus contain rich information about the evolutionary, genetic and taxonomic relationships between their parent groups and their capacity for interparental and group cooperation.’