Symmetry and Human Facial Attractiveness |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading Malaysia, Iskandar Puteri, Malaysia;2. School of Psychology, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Semenyih, Malaysia;3. Department of Computer Science, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK;4. Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Australia;5. ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, North Ryde, Australia;6. Perception in Action Research Centre, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Australia;1. Department of Philosophy and History of Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic;2. Department of Zoology, Faculty of Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic;3. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, University of Buea, Republic of Cameroon;4. National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic;1. Leuven School for Mass Communication Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;2. Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium |
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| Abstract: | Symmetry may act as a marker of phenotypic and genetic quality and is preferred during mate selection in a variety of species. Measures of human body symmetry correlate with attractiveness, but studies manipulating human face images report a preference for asymmetry. These results may reflect unnatural feature shapes and changes in skin textures introduced by image processing. When the shape of facial features is varied (with skin textures held constant), increasing symmetry of face shape increases ratings of attractiveness for both male and female faces. These findings imply facial symmetry may have a positive impact on mate selection in humans. |
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