It’s not just average faces that are attractive: Computer-manipulated averageness makes birds, fish, and automobiles attractive
- 1 March 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
- Vol. 10 (1) , 149-156
- https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03196479
Abstract
Average faces are attractive. We sought to distinguish whether this preference is an adaptation for finding high-quality mates (the direct selectionaccount) or whether it reflects more general...Keywords
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