Evolutionary Psychology of Facial Attractiveness

By B. Fink, Ian Penton-Voak. 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Marketing

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There’s More Than Meets the Eye: Facial Appearance and Evaluations of Transsexual People (2010, background): “2008) and for women on having feminine characteristics such as a small chin, large lips, large eyes, and smooth hair-free skin (Fink and Penton-Voak 2002; Little et al. 2006; Thornhill and Grammer 1999).”
Women's preferences for masculinity in male faces are predicted by pathogen disgust, but not by moral or sexual disgust (2010, background): “Attraction to masculinity is a function of the tradeoffs between the benefits of greater genetic health and the costs of lower investment in relationships and children (Fink & Penton-Voak, 2002; Gangestad & Simpson, 2000; Little, Jones, Penton-Voak, Burt & Perrett, 2002).”
Populational differences in attractiveness judgements of male and female faces: Comparing British and Jamaican samples (2004, background): “Published studies of female attractiveness show that men demonstrate a high level of consistency in preferences across individuals, cultures, and experimental techniques (Fink & Penton-Voak, 2002; Thornill & Gangestad, 1999a, 1999b).”
High salivary testosterone is linked to masculine male facial appearance in humans. (2004, background): “Lower testosterone men may have more feminine faces that attract positive personality attributions, but are predicted by theory to be less healthy than high-testosterone men (see Fink & Penton-Voak, 2002; Penton-Voak & Perrett, 2001).”
Visual adaptation to masculine and feminine faces influences generalized preferences and perceptions of trustworthiness (2006, methodology): “Male faces were used because attraction to sexual dimorphism in male faces is known to be variable (see Fink and Penton-Voak, 2002 and Penton-Voak and Perrett, 2000 for reviews), and therefore, ceiling effects on preferences are less likely to mask face aftereffects than if female faces were used,”
MHC-heterozygosity and human facial attractiveness (2005, background): “These characteristics include indicators of healthiness and developmental stability (Fink, Grammar, & Thornhill, 2001; Fink & Penton-Voak, 2002; Jones et al., 2001; Thornhill & Gangestad, 1999) and, potentially, immunocompetence (Penton-Voak et al., 2001; Perrett et al., 1998; Rhodes, Chan,…”
Are human preferences for facial symmetry focused on signals of developmental instability (2004, background): “Men and women find traits such as averageness, symmetry, and masculinity (in male) or femininity (in female) in faces attractive (for recent reviews see Fink and Penton-Voak, 2002; Thornhill and Gangestad, 1999; Zebrowitz and Rhodes, 2002).”
THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS (2005, background): “As this view expects, men with feminine faces are perceived to be warmer, more agreeable, and more honest than men with masculine faces (see Fink & Penton-Voak 2002).”