Mixed race people really are more attractive! Study confirms stars like Kim ... trends now
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From Kim Kardashian to Zayn Malik, many of the most glamorous stars in Hollywood 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 Caucasian participants to rate photos of people across a range of categories.
The results revealed that mixed race people were not only rated as more attractive, but also more trustworthy, intelligent, and likely to be successful than others.
'Biracial images trigger more positive social judgments via enhanced trustworthiness and attractiveness,' the team wrote in their study.
From Kim Kardashian to Zayn Malik, many of the most glamorous stars in Hollywood are mixed race. Now, a study has confirmed that biracial people really are more attractive
The 2021 UK census revealed that mixed race is the third-largest and fastest-growing ethnic minority group in the UK.
Some predictions even estimate that by the end of the century, roughly one in three of the UK population will be mixed race, with this figure rising to 75 per cent by 2150.
Despite these figures, there has been surprisingly little research into how people perceive mixed race faces in different cultures.
Writing in their study, published in Evolutionary Psychology, the researchers, led by XT Wang, explained: 'Although race may not be an evolutionary default variable for social perception, racial features can be used as cues of social categorization, intergroup
