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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Most kids I have met have decided if someone was nice based on how they treated the kids and if it was not a "fake act" being put on. Kids know when someone is faking being nice to them, and they usually do not care about looks as much as adults do when they are not in a group setting like a classroom, where peer's might affect how they end up feeling about a person.[/quote]

I saw a Frontline episode that cited the studies. The above is actually not true. Children of different races and SES all consistently chose the more attractive person. They described the unattractive person as mean, not nice etc etc. The experiment was part of a research study looking at how biology drives our perception of beauty. Its less cultural than you think and the attraction to people with more symmetrical features and healthy height/weight correlates with those individuals statistically being less likely to carry genetic flaws or higher risk of diseases. Millions of years ago it served the purpose of choosing mates that would produce offspring more likely to survive to mate themselves. Its still hard wired into us. [/quote]

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