Standard of physical attractiveness
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Date
1997
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Kujawa, Betina
Strzałko, Jan
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Polskie Towarzystwo Antropologiczne
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The research was conducted in order to corroborate the validity of the hypotheses that (1) there are certain common
criteria of physical attractiveness of the face, and hence divergence of assessments between persons judging
attractiveness is reduced, regardless of their sex or age; (2) assessment of the physical attractiveness o f human faces is
a property of the cognitive system; its criteria emerge early in the course of the individual development and do not
change with age; (3); the most attractive faces will be characterised with trait variants close to the mean values for a
given population. Computer averaged faces will be perceived as more attractive than actually existing faces, since they
bear the greatest resemblance to the mental prototype of a face.
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Anthropological Review, vol. 61, 1998, pp. 31-48
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0033-2003