The evolutionary psychology of facial beauty.

By Gillian Rhodes. Annual Review of Psychology, 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Facial width-to-height ratio in a Turkish population is not sexually dimorphic and is unrelated to aggressive behavior (2012, background): “On average, males have significantly larger faces (below the pupils), lips and chins; wider cheekbones, jaws and nostrils; and longer lower faces, but significantly lower eyebrows, than females (Rhodes, 2006).”
First Impressions From Faces Among U.S. and Culturally Isolated Tsimane’ People in the Bolivian Rainforest (2012, background): “Because faces closer to the prototype are judged more attractive (Bronstad, Langlois, & Russell, 2008; Langlois & Roggman, 1990; Rhodes, 2006), differences in the prototypical face for American and Tsimane’ judges may suppress agreement in attractiveness ratings.”
Product value importance and consumer preference for visual complexity and symmetry (2010, background): “This has been found for abstract patterns and for faces (e.g. Berlyne, 1971; Jacobsen and Höfel, 2002; Lauer, 1979; Rentschler et al., 1999; Rhodes, 2006).”
Cross-Cultural Variation in Mate Preferences for Averageness, Symmetry, Body Size, and Masculinity (2013, background): “Preferences for facial averageness have been well documented in a number of Western populations (reviewed in Rhodes, 2006, and Thornhill & Gangestad, 1999).”
The Presence of an Attractive Woman Elevates Testosterone and Physical Risk Taking in Young Men (2010, background): “As female attractiveness conveys statistically reliable and observable cues to fertility (Rhodes, 2006; Singh, 1993), we hypothesized that young men would engage in greater physical risk taking when in the presence of an attractive woman.”
The role of facial hair in women's perceptions of men's attractiveness, health, masculinity and parenting abilities (2013, background): “Yet averaged across experiments, women either prefer less masculine faces (Perrett et al., 1998) or weakly prefer masculine faces (Rhodes, 2006).”
Beyond "Pink It and Shrink It" Perceived Product Gender, Aesthetics, and Product Evaluation (2015, background): “The connection between EP and aesthetic preference lies in the so-called “transfer hypothesis” (see Rhodes, 2006), which is based on the mate selection theory.”
The effects of facial hair manipulation on female perceptions of attractiveness, masculinity, and dominance in male faces (2008, background): “For example, researchers have discussed the significant effects of facial averageness and symmetry on judgements of attractiveness (for reviews see Fink & Neave, 2005; Rhodes, 2006).”
The spandrels of Santa Barbara? A new perspective on the peri-ovulation paradigm (2015, background): “In the face, for example, attractiveness is mediated particularly by symmetry, sexual dimorphism, averageness, and health (Gangestad and Scheyd 2005; Rhodes 2006).”
Sex differences in sports interest and motivation: An evolutionary perspective. (2015, background): “Our suggestion may seem surprising because there are many studies showing male mate preferences for women with feminine traits, including voice (Feinberg, 2008), face shape (Rhodes, 2006), and body shape (Singh, 1993; see also Cashdan, 2008).”
The Behavioral Immune System (2015, background): “This is likely to manifest in subjective judgments of attractiveness, which may help explain why faces that are less symmetrical and less prototypical are also judged to be less attractive (Rhodes, 2006).”
Meta-Analysis of Menstrual Cycle Effects on Women’s Mate Preferences (2014, background): “These features emerge during adolescence, when androgens in combination with other hormones stimulate growth of the jaw, cheekbones, and brow ridges; lengthen the center of the face; promote facial and body hair; coarsen the skin, lower voice pitch; and increase musculature, lean body mass, and heig”
From Dating to Mating and Relating: Predictors of Initial and Long–Term Outcomes of Speed–Dating in a Community Sample (2011, background): “Because these cues strongly influence the judgment of facial attractiveness (Rhodes, 2006), facial attractiveness is expected to predict the popularity of both men and women.”
Vocal and Facial Attractiveness Judgments of Children, Adolescents and Adults: the Ontogeny of Mate Choice (2006, positive): “This study is concerned with judgments of male facial and vocal attractiveness, both of which correlate with mating success as measured by number of sexual partners (Hughes et al. 2004; Rhodes et al. 2005).”
Social Psychological Face Perception: Why Appearance Matters. (2008, positive): “In fact, attractive people are more healthy, intelligent, and sociable than unattractive people (Feingold, 1992; Langlois et al., 2000; Rhodes, 2006; Zebrowitz et al., 2002), suggesting that our impressions may simply reflect a learned response to their actual traits, rather than overgeneralized…”
Correlated preferences for men's facial and vocal masculinity (2008, methodology): “It has been suggested that differences in the computer graphic methods that have been used in different studies of preferences for masculinity in men's faces may explain these variable findings for women's face preferences (Penton-Voak & Chen, 2004; Rhodes, 2006; Swaddle & Reierson, 2002).”
Visual aesthetics and human preference. (2013, background): “…coverage of many important topics in empirical aesthetics, including studies of nonvisual modalities (e.g., music cognition), facial attractiveness (Rhodes 2006), neuroaesthetics (Chatterjee 2011), or aesthetic processes in the creator (Turner 2006), all of which are active fields of current…”