Every single study showing that whites are seen as most attractive is not surprising. Europeans have colonized much of the world and American media permeates everywhere halo-ing whites. The only way to determine biologically whether they’re “really” more innately attractive is to look at tribes or groups that have never come into contact with whites before, or to ask babies. Now, in terms of tribes, I wasn’t able to find many studies. But when it comes to newborns or infants, I found studies.
In the first study, "Older but not younger infants associate own-race faces with happy music and other-race faces with sad music", published in Developmental Science, results showed that after six months of age, infants begin to associate own-race faces with happy music and other-race faces with sad music.
In the second study, "Infants rely more on gaze cues from own-race than other-race adults for learning under uncertainty", published in Child Development, researchers found that six- to eight-month-old infants were more inclined to learn information from an adult of his or her own race than from an adult of a different race.
(In both studies, infants less than six months of age were not found to show such biases).
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In both studies, infants less than six months of age were not found to show such biases).