Facial Attractiveness: Evolutionary, Cognitive, and Social Perspectives

By G. Rhodes, L. Zebrowitz. 2001

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Vocal and visual attractiveness are related in women (2003, background): “…related to visual cues signalling youthfulness (Buss 1989; Jackson 1992; Bereczkei et al. 1997; Rhodes & Zebrowitz 2002), presumably because one of the major indicators of reproductive potential is age (Symons 1979; Rhodes & Zebrowitz 2002) and these women should therefore be preferred as mates.”
The Uncanny Valley: Effect of Realism on the Impression of Artificial Human Faces (2007, background): “Researchers have shown that the facial attractiveness is influenced by various factors, such as averageness, youthfulness, symmetry, and skin smoothness (see Rhodes & Zebrowitz, 2002 for review).”
Attractiveness and sexual behavior: Does attractiveness enhance mating success? (2005, result): “This less conservative analysis likewise failed to replicate the result of Thornhill and Gangestad (1994) (Rhodes, Simmons, & Peters, unpublished).”
Too real for comfort? Uncanny responses to computer generated faces (2009, background): “Indeed, much of the research on attractiveness concerns the biological markers of beauty, sex appeal, and relationship potential and their selective advantage (e.g., Conway, Jones, DeBruine, & Little, 2008; for reviews see Etcoff, 1999; Rhodes & Zebrowitz , 2002).”
Are human preferences for facial symmetry focused on signals of developmental instability (2004, background): “[Behav Ecol 15:864–871 (2004)] Psychologists have long been interested in the cognitivemechanisms and adaptive significance of facial attractiveness (see Rhodes and Zebrowitz, 2002).”