Just can't resist looking at beautiful people...

So I was reading the livescience site and came across and article titled, "Eyes Can't Resist Beautiful People", which gives a synopsis of a study done by Jon Maner from Florida State University in which he discovers that as humans we are instinctly prone to looking at beautiful people, whether we are looking for a potential partner or if we are in a relationship. What's interesting is if we are in a relationship the study stated that we will usually draw our attention to attractive individuals of the same sex, according to the article the reason is because we feel insecure and we want to check out our competition, and deep down we have feeling of infidelity that has been wired in us through evolution. We have instinctly learned to check out our competition, well ok so this is mostly for people who are prone to jealousy because if some individuals who feel insecure and get jealous very quickly then they tend to be on the lookout for just as or even more attractive people then themselves because they know that their partner will do the same, or feel that way atleast. Of course their attention doesn't seem to focus on average people, or perhaps average people aren't really that jealous :). Well I guess I might have to talk about the lek paradox if we are talking about average people, but perhaps that should be another post...