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  -

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