NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men and women generally agree about how attractive another person is, and are often quite accurate in predicting how others will rate their own appearance, new study findings show.

These results indicate that, not surprisingly, people tend to pay very close attention to their own and others’ attractiveness.

One gets the feeling that physical attractiveness is one of the major themes of social life,” study author Dr. Rowland Miller told Reuters Health.

Interestingly, men and women also show subtle differences in how they rate themselves and others, illustrating that both genders are not equally attuned to physical attractiveness, report Miller and his coauthor, Dr. David K. Marcus.