Psychology of aesthetics: Beauty, social media, and body dysmorphic disorder

MR Laughter, JB Anderson, MBC Maymone… - Clinics in …, 2023 - Elsevier
The perception of beauty is fluid within society and can morph based on cultural practices
and societal interaction, such as social media exposure. The exposure to digital conference …

Does facial attractiveness really signal immunocompetence?

BC Jones, IJ Holzleitner, V Shiramizu - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2021 - cell.com
The dominant theory of facial attractiveness judgments is that they evolved to identify healthy
individuals with strong immune systems. Here, we summarize results of recent tests of this …

From likely to likable: The role of statistical typicality in human social assessment of faces

CK Ryali, S Goffin, P Winkielman… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Humans readily form social impressions, such as attractiveness and trustworthiness, from a
stranger's facial features. Understanding the provenance of these impressions has clear …

Which facial features are central in impression formation?

B Jaeger, AL Jones - Social Psychological and Personality …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Which facial characteristics do people rely on when forming personality impressions?
Previous research has uncovered an array of facial features that influence people's …

Machine Learning‐Based Facial Beauty Prediction and Analysis of Frontal Facial Images Using Facial Landmarks and Traditional Image Descriptors

T J. Iyer, RK, R Nersisson, Z Zhuang… - Computational …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The beauty industry has seen rapid growth in multiple countries and due to its applications
in entertainment, the analysis and assessment of facial attractiveness have received …

Distinctiveness and femininity, rather than symmetry and masculinity, affect facial attractiveness across the world

K Kleisner, P Tureček, SA Saribay, O Pavlovič… - Evolution and Human …, 2024 - Elsevier
Studies investigating facial attractiveness in humans have frequently been limited to
studying the effect of individual morphological factors in isolation from other facial shape …

Little between-region and between-country variance when people form impressions of others

N Hester, SY Xie, E Hehman - Psychological Science, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
To what extent are perceivers' first impressions of other individuals dictated by cultural
background rather than personal idiosyncrasies? To address this question, we analyzed a …

The importance of face-shape masculinity for perceptions of male dominance depends on study design

J Dong, K Leger, VKM Shiramizu, UM Marcinkowska… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Dominance perceptions play an important role in social interactions. Although many
researchers have proposed that shape masculinity is an important facial cue for dominance …

Incomplete faces are completed using a more average face

RSS Kramer, AL Jones - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2022 - Springer
Facial first impressions are known to influence how we behave towards others. As a result of
the COVID-19 pandemic, we often view incomplete faces due to the commonplace wearing …

Perceived attractiveness of Czech faces across 10 cultures: Associations with sexual shape dimorphism, averageness, fluctuating asymmetry, and eye color

T Kočnar, SA Saribay, K Kleisner - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Research on the perception of faces typically assumes that there are some universal values
of attractiveness which are shared across individuals and cultures. The perception of …