<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/041fe8e4-5617-4473-a103-5bbcb694afa9/03FB175A-4F83-4F22-9148-848667F210D5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16016-why-fertile-women-hate-a-pretty-face.html" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16016-why-fertile-women-hate-a-pretty-face.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16016-why-fertile-women-hate-a-pretty-face.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newscientist.com/img/A7E29C9C-2C18-4E88-9625-8471B166108D" alt="Examples of the manipulated faces used in the experiment. The images on the left are masculinised, the ones on the right are feminised (Image: Benedict Jones)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16016-why-fertile-women-hate-a-pretty-face.html"><P>Everyone loves a pretty face - except those women who might see it as a threat. With eyes on the competition, women of childbearing age rate other attractive women consistently lower than women who have entered menopause, according to a new study.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16016-why-fertile-women-hate-a-pretty-face.html"><P>"It's almost as if they're putting down other attractive women," says <A target="ns" href="http://www.facelab.org/bcjones/" linkindex="31" set="yes">Benedict Jones</A>, a psychologist at Aberdeen University, UK, who led the study of 97 middle-aged women.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16016-why-fertile-women-hate-a-pretty-face.html"><P>Numerous studies have looked at how fertility affects women's preferences for men's <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7668--beauty-is-in-the-nose-of-the-beholder.html" linkindex="32">faces</A>, <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14619744.900-sex--the-symmetrical-body.html" linkindex="33">bodies</A>, <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18424781.500-speed-dating-and-the-rules-of-attraction.html" linkindex="34">voices</A>, and even <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1815-women-attracted-to-men-who-smell-like-dad.html" linkindex="35">sweaty shirts</A>. Yet few researchers have flipped the coin to examine how fertility changes competition for mates within sexes, says Jones.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16016-why-fertile-women-hate-a-pretty-face.html"><P>He and his colleagues showed pre- and post-menopausal women pictures of men and women, digitally manipulated to make them more masculine or more feminine looking. 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