"4601","The face, beauty, and symmetry: Perceiving asymmetry in beautiful faces","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. ","http://cogprints.org/4601/","Zaidel, Dr. Dahlia W. and Cohen, Jennifer A.","UNSPECIFIED","       <span class=\"person_name\">Zaidel, Dr. Dahlia W.</span> and <span class=\"person_name\">Cohen, Jennifer A.</span>     (2005)  <a href=\"http://cogprints.org/4601/\"><em>The face, beauty, and symmetry: Perceiving asymmetry in beautiful faces.</em></a>       [Journal (Paginated)]           ","","2005-08"