"No offense, but you look better from behind," say scientists.

Photo: flickr/bradleygeeEver look at someone from behind and imagine their face, only to have them turn around and look totally different (and maybe even be the opposite gender) from what you predicted? In this study, the scientists had subjects rate the attractiveness of photos of people's heads from the back and front. The photos of the same head from the back were rated as more attractive than the photo of the front, especially when men were rating photographs of women. The subjects (again, especially men) also predicted that the person would be more attractive from the front than they actually rated them. So the next time you think about approaching someone who looks hot from behind, science says you should probably wait for them to turn around first.Back view of beauty: a bias in attractiveness judgment. "Attractiveness judgment based on visual appearance seems easy and almost automatic. However, it becomes ...