Women Are Attracted To Men Who Look Like Their Father

Who’s Your Daddy?

The type of man who makes woman’s heart flutter has a lot to whether she was a daddy’s girl, according to a new study.

Women who got along well with their dads as kids are attracted to men who resemble their fathers, whereas women who had a bad father-daughter relationship do not.

Lynda Boothroyd, a psychologist at Durham University in England, and her colleagues at the University of Wroclaw and the Institute of Anthropology in Poland asked a trained anthropologist to perform facial measurements on the photographs of 15 random men as well as the photographs of the fathers of 49 Polish women participating in the study.

The anthropologist calculated 15 key proportions based on how various features—such as the lips, nose, cheekbones and brows—related to each face’s height and width. The researchers also compared the 15 random faces to each of the father’s faces to determine how closely they resembled one another.

The women then rated their childhood relationships with their fathers based on how emotionally invested they felt their dads had been in raising them and how much time their fathers had spent with them. The women were split into two groups based on how positively or negatively they rated their relationships.

Then the researchers asked the women to rate how attractive they found each of the 15 random male faces.

The women who had reported positive relationships with their fathers were much more likely to be attracted to men resembling their fathers, the researchers found. On the other hand, women with bad dad relationships did not find men who looked like their fathers appealing.

“While previous research has suggested this to be the case, these controlled results show for certain that the quality of a daughter’s relationship with her father has an impact on whom she finds attractive,” Boothroyd said in a prepared statement. “It shows our human brains don’t simply build prototypes of the ideal face based on those we see around us, rather they build them based on those to whom we have a strongly positive relationship.”

Although no one yet knows for sure why females show these preferences, a woman with a great dad may choose a similar-looking mate in the hopes that he will also be a good father, the researchers wrote.

It’s no secret that you can figure out a lot about how to pick up a woman based on her relationship with her father.  Typically, women who had bad relationships with daddy are easier to get into bed fast, but they are also harder to deal with in the long term.  (At least, that’s been my experience.)

The interesting thing I’ve found about this article is that the women are actually attracted to certain PHYSICAL features that their father had, based on their relationship with him.  And women who had a bad relationship with daddy were actually repulsed by similar features.

So if you have a really hot chick who hates daddy, and her daddy is a really good looking guy, then chances are there are physical things about "good looking guys" she doesn’t find appealing.  Interesting, right?

Just more proof that you can never tell what, exactly, a girl’s "type" is.