Why do we as women find one man more attractive than the next man? Sometimes we meet a man who is kind, caring, loving and have all the qualities that we are looking for in a husband and a father, yet his looks just do not spark those butterflies in your stomach. Whether we find a man’s face attractive or not do not vary significantly across cultures, and even adults and infants find the same faces attractive.

What makes you blush and stumble over your words when you suddenly bump into him at the Mall? Here are some clues:

• Sun tanned or slightly brown skin
• Narrow facial shape
• Little fat in the face
• Full and symmetrical lips
• Dark eye brows
• Dark and full eye lashes
• Upper half of the face broader in relation to the lower
• High cheek bones
• Prominent lower jaw
• More prominent chin
• No receding brows
• No wrinkles between nose and corner of the mouth

The more attractive the man’s face is, the more successful, content, friendly, intelligent, sociable, accessible, exciting, responsible and creative the man is in our perception. Okay so we believe that what is beautiful must also be good. Even if it turns out not to be true, perception is reality to us. We would rather have a hunk like Brad Pitt by our side than a self-made multi-billionaire geek like Bill Gates. Even though I might be miserable in wealth I very much doubt that I can stare in admiration at Bill Gates’ face every morning when we lie in bed.

So do we marry the very attractive man that makes our blood pump wildly, let us hang our hair loose and is the envy of all our friends, or are we content with the average looking husband? A new study published recently in the journal Psychological Science, offered a new explanation why average faces (mathematically average, not average-looking) are judged more attractive. The researchers, Piotr Winkielman of the University of California, San Diego and Jamin Halberstadt of University of Otago in New Zealand, said that we prefer average faces because they are closer to our mental prototype of a face. In other words, average faces are more "face-like." Why are we content with marrying the average looking guy? It is just easier for our brains to accept. Our brains are exposed to a variety of faces everyday and we build up a prototype face that contains average characteristics of every section of the face. Depending on where you live and how many people you are exposed to will influence your prototype face. Still some women prefer the more exotic look and choose a man that falls completely outside of her prototype face.

In summary, beauty is really in the eye of the beholder. If he is average looking, good in bed, caring, loving, charming, handles himself well in many situations then you will never choose Brad Pitt over him if you were suddenly placed in such a situation. What ?! I will drop him like a hot potato and run off with Brad in a freaking heartbeat. But then, I am proud to be shallow.