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Who's more superficial? Men or women? Men are visual beings who like confidence - as long as it's pouting and dressed in a bikini. Those are the revelations of a new study of 4,000 people who judged photos posted on the website HotorNot.com. Men consistently preferred the images of women who were thin, seductive and "confident." Translation: scantily clad and posing suggestively. Women, in turn, showed weakness for muscular subjects, but often disagreed on how attractive the men were. "Men tend to agree about twice as much as women do," said Dustin Wood, lead researcher and assistant professor of psychology at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. Prof. "The fact that men agree so much means that there are great rewards for having those characteristics, and possibly great punishment for not having them." The study was published in last month's issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and co-authored by Claudia Brumbaugh at Queens College in New York. Prof. So who wins in this sexual divide? Lesbians, Prof.

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