The Impact of Face Skin Tone vs. Face Symmetry on Perceived Facial Attractiveness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10124218 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Germano Vera Cruz (0000-0002-8297-6933, Eduardo Mondlane University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 145 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 183-198 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of General Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1309 • E-ISSN: 1940-0888 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00221309.2018.1459452 |
| PMID | 29768129 |
| OpenAlex | W2804125102 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 32 |
The purpose of this study was to assess and compare the relative contribution of skin tone and symmetry on judgment of attractiveness regarding female faces. Two hundred and fifteen Mozambican adults were presented with a set of faces, and instructed to rate their degree of attractiveness along a continuous scale. Chi-square, factorial weight analyses and ANOVA were used to analyze the data. Face skin tone had a significant impact on the participants' attractiveness judgment of target faces. However, the target face skin tone contribution to the participants' attractiveness judgment (5% of the total variance) was much weaker than the contribution of the target face symmetry (85% of the total variance). These results imply that skin bleaching, common among Black people across sub-Saharan African countries, is not only dangerous to the health of those who practice it, but it is unlikely to make them appear much more attractive
Art · Attractiveness · Audiology · Cartography · Economics · Face (sociological concept · Facial attractiveness · Geography · Linguistics · Scale (ratio · Set (abstract data type · Tone (literature · Variance (accounting · Computer Science · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |