title: The face, beauty, and symmetry: Perceiving asymmetry in beautiful faces
creator: Zaidel, Dr. Dahlia W.
creator: Cohen, Jennifer A.
subject: Neuropsychology
subject: Evolutionary Psychology
subject: Behavioral Neuroscience
description: 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. 
publisher: Taylor & Francis
date: 2005-08
type: Journal (Paginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/4601/1/Zaidel_%26_Cohen_2005_SENT.pdf
identifier:   Zaidel, Dr. Dahlia W. and Cohen, Jennifer A.  (2005) The face, beauty, and symmetry: Perceiving asymmetry in beautiful faces.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/4601/