@misc{cogprints4601,
          volume = {115},
          number = {8},
           month = {August},
          author = {Dr. Dahlia W. Zaidel and Jennifer A. Cohen},
           title = {The face, beauty, and symmetry: Perceiving asymmetry in beautiful faces},
       publisher = {Taylor \& Francis},
            year = {2005},
         journal = {International Journal of Neuroscience},
           pages = {1165--1173},
        keywords = {attractiveness, brain evolution, the face and the brain, functional asymmetry, symmetry, evolution, mate choice, sexual selection, nature of beauty, left-left, right-right,
beauty ratings, hemispheric specialization, faces.  },
             url = {http://cogprints.org/4601/},
        abstract = {The relationship between bilateral facial symmetry and beauty remains to be clarified. Here, straight head-on photographs of ?beautiful? faces from the collections of professional modeling agencies were selected. First, beauty ratings were obtained for these faces. Then, the authors created symmetrical left-left and right-right composites of the beautiful faces and asked a new group of subjects to choose the most attractive pair member. ?Same? responses were allowed. No difference between the left-left and right-right composites was revealed but significant differences were obtained between ?same? and the left-left or right-right. These results show that subjects detected asymmetry in beauty and suggest that very beautiful faces can be functionally asymmetrical.
}
}

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