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Facial attractiveness: evolutionary based research

Author(s) -

Anthony C. Little,

Benedict C. Jones,

Lisa M. DeBruine

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

philosophical transactions of the royal society b biological sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.753

H-Index - 272

eISSN - 1471-2970

pISSN - 0962-8436

DOI - 10.1098/rstb.2010.0404

Subject(s) - attractiveness , mate choice , facial attractiveness , psychology , sexual selection , cognitive psychology , personality , social psychology , affect (linguistics) , social cue , face (sociological concept) , mating , ecology , communication , biology , sociology , social science , psychoanalysis

Face preferences affect a diverse range of critical social outcomes, from mate choices and decisions about platonic relationships to hiring decisions and decisions about social exchange. Firstly, we review the facial characteristics that influence attractiveness judgements of faces (e.g. symmetry, sexually dimorphic shape cues, averageness, skin colour/texture and cues to personality) and then review several important sources of individual differences in face preferences (e.g. hormone levels and fertility, own attractiveness and personality, visual experience, familiarity and imprinting, social learning). The research relating to these issues highlights flexible, sophisticated systems that support and promote adaptive responses to faces that appear to function to maximize the benefits of both our mate choices and more general decisions about other types of social partners.

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