TY - GEN
ID - cogprints4601
UR - http://cogprints.org/4601/
A1 - Zaidel, Dr. Dahlia W.
A1 - Cohen, Jennifer A.
Y1 - 2005/08//
N2 - The relationship between bilateral facial symmetry and beauty remains to be clarified. Here, straight head-on photographs of ?beautiful? faces from the collections of professional modeling agencies were selected. First, beauty ratings were obtained for these faces. Then, the authors created symmetrical left-left and right-right composites of the beautiful faces and asked a new group of subjects to choose the most attractive pair member. ?Same? responses were allowed. No difference between the left-left and right-right composites was revealed but significant differences were obtained between ?same? and the left-left or right-right. These results show that subjects detected asymmetry in beauty and suggest that very beautiful faces can be functionally asymmetrical.
PB - Taylor & Francis
KW - attractiveness
KW - brain evolution
KW - the face and the brain
KW - functional asymmetry
KW - symmetry
KW - evolution
KW - mate choice
KW - sexual selection
KW - nature of beauty
KW - left-left
KW - right-right
KW -
beauty ratings
KW - hemispheric specialization
KW - faces.
TI - The face, beauty, and symmetry: Perceiving asymmetry in beautiful faces
SP - 1165
AV - public
EP - 1173
ER -