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Do You Want a Photo of Your Ideal Partner?

Jennifer South Palomares

• 25 September 2015
  5pm-8.30pm

• York Explore (map)

• FREE admission
  No booking required

• Wheelchair accessible

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Do you like Brad Pitt’s eyes, George Clooney’s smile or Natalie Portman’s nose? Using face-morphing technology, plus some scary maths equations, we can create a photo of your ideal partner and we can see how the face of your ideal partner changes according to your age, sex, culture, and relationship stage. My research explores partner preferences using photos and it also provides a step towards answering the question: do men genuinely prefer young sexy women and do women prefer older men with great jobs? Creating a photo of your ideal partner would be invaluable to the booming market of dating services, a market that is estimated to be valued at £150 million in the UK alone, and it could provide important guidelines on how to improve relationship quality and reduce divorce rate.