Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Perrett, David I
• Burt, D.Michael
• Penton-Voak, Ian S
• Lee, Kieran J
• Rowland, Duncan A
• Edwards, Rachel

Titel

Symmetry and Human Facial Attractiveness

Ist Teil von

• Ethology and Sociobiology, 1999-09, Vol.20 (5), p.295-307

Ort / Verlag

New York: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

1999

Quelle

Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect (DFG Nationallizenzen)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Symmetry may act as a marker of phenotypic and genetic quality and is preferred during mate selection in a variety of species. Measures of human body symmetry correlate with attractiveness, but studies manipulating human face images report a preference for asymmetry. These results may reflect unnatural feature shapes and changes in skin textures introduced by image processing. When the shape of facial features is varied (with skin textures held constant), increasing symmetry of face shape increases ratings of attractiveness for both male and female faces. These findings imply facial symmetry may have a positive impact on mate selection in humans.