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Day 8 news response

Madelyn Perkovich

Today I read about the underlying causes of attraction, and the weird importance of pupils! As it turns out, for years and even centuries, men have been more attracted to women with larger pupils. They conducted an experiment where men were shown two identical pictures of women, one with dilated pupils. The men didn't notice the dilation, but they almost always chose the woman with dilated pupils as more attractive. They described her as "soft" and "amorous", while they described the other as "selfish" and "cold". I thought this was interesting because of how deeply rooted it was.

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