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What makes a pretty face?

Science News Explores
Beautiful faces are symmetrical and average. Do we prefer them because this makes them easier for our brains to process?
96 months ago

TikTok and Instagram Beauty Filters Aren’t Trying to Fool Anyone

WIRED
Augmented reality filters are the most surprising way to be yourself online.
15 months ago

Machine Learning-Based Facial Beauty Prediction and Analysis of Frontal Facial Images Using Facial Landmarks and Traditional Image Descriptors

Wiley Online Library
An analysis of techniques is used in the assessment of facial beauty that considers facial ratios and facial qualities as elements to predict facial beauty.
39 months ago

Behavioural and Neural Responses to Facial Disfigurement - Scientific Reports

Nature
Faces are among the most salient and relevant visual and social stimuli that humans encounter. Attractive faces are associated with positive...
66 months ago

Evaluation of Facial Beauty Using Anthropometric Proportions - Milutinovic - 2014 - The Scientific World Journal

Wiley Online Library
The aim of this investigation was to evaluate the difference in facial proportions between attractive and anonymous females in order to establish objective...
129 months ago

A new data-driven mathematical model dissociates attractiveness from sexual dimorphism of human faces

Nature
Human facial attractiveness is evaluated by using multiple cues. Among others, sexual dimorphism (i.e. masculinity for male faces/femininity...
49 months ago

Humans judge faces in incomplete photographs as physically more attractive

Nature
Attractive people are perceived to be healthier, wealthier, and more sociable. Yet, people often judge the attractiveness of others based on...
58 months ago

The aesthetic preference for symmetry dissociates from early-emerging attention to symmetry

Nature
We assessed four-year-old children's and adults' reported aesthetic preferences between symmetrical and asymmetrical visual patterns, as well as their...
79 months ago

Oxidative stress as a hidden cost of attractiveness in postmenopausal women

Nature
Perceived facial attractiveness, a putative marker of high biological fitness, is costly to maintain throughout a lifetime and may cause...
47 months ago

Preference for facial averageness: Evidence for a common mechanism in human and macaque infants

Nature
Human adults and infants show a preference for average faces, which could stem from a general processing mechanism and may be shared among primates.
91 months ago