Facial attractiveness,developmental stability,and fluctuating asymmetry |
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| Affiliation: | 1. University of Bucharest, Romania;2. University of Padova, Italy;3. University of Kardinal Stefan Wyszyński, Poland;1. Department of Environmental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Grzegorzecka st. 20, 31-531 Krakow, Poland;2. Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie, Université de Toulouse, CNRS-UMR 5263, Toulouse 31000, France;3. Institut Universitaire de France, 103 boulevard Saint-Michel, 75005 Paris, France;4. Department of Psychology, University of Bath, 10 West, Bath, United Kingdom;1. Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Department of Cognitive Psychology, Germany;2. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Research Center of Marketing and Consumer Science, Belgium |
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Despite robust cross-cultural reliability of human facial attractiveness ratings, research on facial attractiveness has only superficially addressed the connection between facial attractiveness and the history of sexual selection in Homo sapiens. There are reasons to believe that developmental stability and phenotypic quality are related. Recent studies of nonhuman animals indicate that developmental stability, measured as fluctuating asymmetry in generally bilateral symmetrical traits, is predictive of performance in sexual selection: Relatively symmetrical males are advantaged under sexual selection. This pattern is suggested by our study of facial attractiveness and fluctuating asymmetry in seven bilateral body traits in a student population. Overall, facial attractiveness negatively correlated with fluctuating asymmetry; the relation for men, but not for women, was statistically reliable. Possible confounding factors were controlled for in the analysis. |
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