The Attractiveness of Nonface Averages: Implications for an Evolutionary Explanation of the Attractiveness of Average Faces
- 1 July 2000
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Science
- Vol. 11 (4) , 285-289
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9280.00257
Abstract
Researchers have argued that humans' attraction to average faces reflects an evolved psychological mechanism to identify high-quality mates. If this direct-selection account is correct, there is no...Keywords
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