Are we deceived by computer generated beauty?

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It seems that by creating certain types of faces, with emphasis on features and structures that we perceive as attractive we can be manipulated in such a way that we prefer the computer generated features before the ones in real, living humans. This can be seen in the fact that at least some individuals thinks that the computergeneraed beauty of Neytiri exceeds the beauty of most real women.

Neytiri is not alone. In a reserach project where one morphed together the faces of several contenders in a beauty competition, people who were shown images of the competitors and the morphed image of them, preferred the morphed computer image.

If this trend increases will it give rise to a society where more and more of us will long for unrealistic images of a would be future partner while we overlook real people? How many have not perhaps overlooked a real, beautiful and nice girl because their minds have been fixed into some dream of Neytiri?

Here is something about virtual beauty:

Beautycheck - virtual miss germany