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Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>The new research involved comparing the attractiveness of a group of young adults, as rated by another group of people, to the state of their immune systems and the level of inflammation in their bodies. A team of researchers has established a potential link between a person’s attractiveness and their immune system function.<\/p>\n

The authors of the new study, which was published this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B journal, state the results of their work \u201crevealed multiple, sometimes sex-differentiated, relationships between targets’ immune function and others\u2019 perceptions of their attractiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n

The research involved facial images of 159 adults being rated for attractiveness by 492 people recruited on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk survey hosting platform, with the results then being compared to the results of tests the first group was subjected to. The tests included the assessment of the first group’s members’ immune system state and the level of inflammation in their bodies, as well as their self-reported health.<\/p>\n

The researchers have concluded that those participants who were regarded as attractive had \u201crelatively healthier immune function, especially in regards to bacterial immunity,” as ScienceAlert puts it. The media outlet also points out that the team apparently did not find any link between \u201chigher inflammation and attractiveness.”<\/p>\n

The team also stated that, while further research is needed to \u201creplicate these results,” their work \u201csuggests that a relationship between facial attractiveness and immune function is likely to exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

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