WHAT IS AVERAGE AND WHAT IS NOT AVERAGE ABOUT ATTRACTIVE FACES

被引:216
作者
LANGLOIS, JH [1 ]
ROGGMAN, LA [1 ]
MUSSELMAN, L [1 ]
机构
[1] UTAH STATE UNIV,LOGAN,UT 84322
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D O I
10.1111/j.1467-9280.1994.tb00503.x
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
We reported in this journal (Langlois & Roggman, 1990) findings showing that attractive faces are those that represent the mathematical average of faces in a population. These findings were intriguing because they provided a parsimonious definition of facial attractiveness and because they supported explanations of attractiveness from the point of view of both evolutionary and cognitive-prototype theory. Since our 1990 report, several alternative explanations of our findings have been offered. In this article, we show that none of these alternatives explains our results adequately.
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