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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.\n"
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  - family: Zaidel
    given: Dahlia W.
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  - family: Cohen
    given: Jennifer A.
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date: 2005-08
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  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.  
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publication: International Journal of Neuroscience
publisher: Taylor & Francis
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  - neuro-psy
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title: 'The face, beauty, and symmetry: Perceiving asymmetry in beautiful faces'
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volume: 115
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