Back in 1999 David Shade reported on his own Seduction observations, and claimed:

The old adage that women marry their fathers is so very true.
Women of divorced parents tend to end up divorced themselves. If their father was absent, they tend to be with men who are absent. Women who were treated well by their fathers tend to have a good self esteem and to be with men who treat them well. They take compliments well. Women who were treated badly by their fathers tend to have a low self esteem and be with men who treat them badly. They do not take compliments well. Women who were the youngest sibling and spoiled by their father tend to be confident and sassy.

Interestingly, recent research by Durham University and two Polish institutions concluded that women who enjoyed a good childhood relationship with their male parent found men who resemble their fathers to be more desirable.

The correlation only applied when the relationship between father and daughter was particularly close. Women who reported negative, neutral or even slightly positive bonds were no more likely to prefer men looking like their fathers than anyone else.

The study illustrated its point giving celebrity examples as Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi with Nigel Lawson; along with Zoë Ball and Norman Cook with Johnny Ball.

Nigella Lawson	Charles Saatchi	Nigel Lawson

Zoë Ball	Norman Cook	Johnny Ball

Author, Dr Lynda Boothroyd of Durham University said:

These controlled results show for certain that the quality of a daughter’s relationship with her father has an impact on whom she finds attractive. It shows our human brains don’t simply build prototypes of the ideal face based on those we see around us, rather they build them based on those to whom we have a strongly positive relationship. We can now say that daughters who have very positive childhood relationships with their fathers choose men with similar central facial characteristics to their fathers.

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Posted by Jonathan in Anthropology, Psychology