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It is hard to deny that creative people are generally perceived to be attractive—but with creativity taking so many different forms, it is not surprisingly that some creatives are considered to be sexier than others.
A new study at the University of Pennsylvania, led by psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman, reports that creative behaviors that are related to aesthetics—such as playing music, dancing and creative writing—have the most sex appeal when compared to other types of creativity in the “applied-tech” and “domestic” categories.
After asking the study’s participants to rank a list of creative behaviors by how sexually attractive they are, the researchers found that both men and women found “playing sports”, “recording music” and “taking artistic photographs” to be among the most attractive behaviors—at the same time, the participants also agreed that “entering a science project” and “making websites” are among the least attractive.
Unsurprisingly, the study also found that people are more attracted to people who are involved in the same creative activities as themselves—in other words, “likeness attracts”.
Does this mean that tech geeks are “scientifically” less attractive than rock stars? Read more about this intriguing study here, or get access to the entire report here.
[via Fast Co. Design]