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Constructing Cognitive Scaffolding Through Embodied Receptiveness ...
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[CITATION] Facial attractiveness, symmetry and cues of good genes -
JE Scheib - Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 1999 - The Royal Society
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Facial Diversity and Infant Preferences for Attractive Faces -
JH Langlois, JM Ritter, LA Roggman, LS Vaughn - Annual Progress in Child Psychiatry and Child Development, …, 1992 - books.google.com
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Facial attractiveness -
R Thornhill, SW Gangestad - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1999 - Elsevier
... Women do not exhibit this preference during the low ... changes with age and female faces
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Adults?responses to infants varying in appearance of age and attractiveness -
JM Ritter, RJ Casey, JH Langlois - Child Development, 1991 - JSTOR
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Evolutionary Psychology of Facial Attractiveness -
B Fink, I Penton-Voak - Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2002 - Blackwell Synergy
... Specifi- cally, females exhibit a shift in pref- erence ... physically attrac- tive showed
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Physical attractiveness as a mediator of the impact of early pubertal changes for girls -
DF Zakin, DA Blyth, RG Simmons - Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1984 - Springer
... argues that attractive girls will exhibit greater difficulty during ... Attractiveness
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Symmetry and Human Facial Attractiveness -
DI Perrett, DM Burt, IS Penton-Voak, KJ Lee, DA … - Evolution and Human Behavior, 1999 - Elsevier
... Sexually selected characteristics exhibit increased levels of ... the 30 symmetric versions
of the same faces. ... no consistent directional asymmetries greater than 1 ...

Infant Preferences for Attractive Faces: Rudiments ofa Stereotype? -
JH Langlois, LA Roggman, RJ Casey, JM Ritter, LA … - Developmental Psychology, 1987 - content.apa.org
... an- other is provided when infants exhibit differential looking ... of these ratings
was .97 or greater as assessed ... forthestudy consisted of the faces, posed with ...

Perceptual asymmetries in judgements of facial attractiveness, age, gender, speech and expression -
DM Burt, DI Perrett - Neuropsychologia, 1997 - Elsevier
... for judgements about attractiveness there is a perceptual bias with greater attention
paid ... Aesthetic judgements about faces appear to exhibit the same ...

Adaptive significance of female physical attractiveness: Role of waist-to-hip ratio -
D Singh - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1993 - content.apa.org
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Close relations exhibit greater agreement on the attractiveness of faces

Cambridge, Mass. December 12, 2007 – A new study from researchers at Harvard University shows that friends, siblings and spouses are more likely than strangers to agree on the attractiveness of faces. Recent research regarding facial attractiveness has emphasized the universality of attractiveness preferences, and in this study there was some agreement among the strangers - but the close relations were in even greater agreement regarding facial attractiveness.

The study appears in the current issue of the journal Perception, and was led by Richard Russell, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, and Matthew Bronstad a postdoctoral researcher at the Schepens Eye Research Institute, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School. The work was done while Bronstad was with Brandeis University.

“While there are some universal standards of beauty, this study shows that perception and standards of attractiveness are more likely to be shared among individuals who know each other well,” says Russell.

In the study, 113 participants were asked to rate 74 faces on a scale from one to seven, from very attractive to very unattractive. Among the participants were 20 pairs of spouses, 20 pairs of siblings and 41 pairs of close friends. Each of the pairs completed the test separately, so that they could not influence each other’s ratings. The participants ranged widely in age, but were of a similar background, and were all North American and caucasian. The faces rated were all young and caucasian.

Participants who were part of a pair of close relations were also paired with another individual who they had not met, in order to form a pair of strangers. In analyzing the ratings, the researchers found that while the strangers’ ratings of the faces were often similar, which was consistent with previous findings, the ratings of the spouses, siblings and close friends were markedly more in agreement.

Previous research has shown that while there are cross-cultural standards of beauty, there is greater agreement about facial beauty within cultures. This study narrows the focus of preferences for beauty within even smaller groups: individuals who know each other well and have personal relationships.

The researchers theorized that this greater agreement among close relations could stem from several different causes. Interestingly, the number of years that the pairs of people spent in daily contact was related to the strength of their agreement on facial attractiveness. This could be because those individuals who spent a great deal amount of time together saw many of the same faces on a day-to-day basis.

“Because close relations know and see many of the same people, their visual ‘diet’ of faces has been similar. It’s likely that repeated visual exposure to the same faces could have an effect on their perception of what makes a face attractive,” says Bronstad.

Further research will explore the possibility that attractiveness preferences are genetically determined. However, the siblings’ ratings of the faces were not more closely correlated than those of the spouses or the close friends, which suggests that genetics is not the sole cause of facial attractiveness preferences.

 
 
 
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