ArticleScientific reports2019
Subjectivity and complexity of facial attractiveness.
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- The Effect of Wearing a Mask on Facial Attractiveness.Aesthetic surgery journal. Open forum · 2022Article
- The Impact of Dental Midline on Asymmetric Faces: Perspective of Laypersons and Dentists.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Modeling individual preferences reveals that face beauty is not universally perceived across cultures.Current biology : CB · 2021Article
- A novel facial attractiveness evaluation system based on face shape, facial structure features and skin.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2020Article
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- Multidimensional Indicators as Enablers on Perception of Facial Beauty and Appearance among Indian Population: A Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of cutaneous and aesthetic surgeryArticle
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Abstract
The origin and meaning of facial beauty represent a longstanding puzzle. Despite the profuse literature devoted to facial attractiveness, its very nature, its determinants and the nature of inter-person differences remain controversial issues. Here we tackle such questions proposing a novel experimental approach in which human subjects, instead of rating natural faces, are allowed to efficiently explore the face-space and "sculpt" their favorite variation of a reference facial image. The results reveal that different subjects prefer distinguishable regions of the face-space, highlighting the essential subjectivity of the phenomenon. The different sculpted facial vectors exhibit strong correlations among pairs of facial distances, characterising the underlying universality and complexity of the cognitive processes, and the relative relevance and robustness of the different facial distances.
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