Female facial beauty
The fertility hypothesis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20484287 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victor S Johnston (New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 107-122 |
| Publication date | 2000-05-22 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pragmatics & Cognition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0929-0907 • E-ISSN: 1569-9943 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/pc.8.1.06joh |
| OpenAlex | W2039432776 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Prior research on facial beauty has suggested that the average female face in a population is perceived to be the most attractive face. This finding, however, is based on an image processing methodology that appears to be flawed. An alternative method for generating attractive faces is described and the findings using this procedure are compared with the reports of other experimenters. The results suggest that (1) beautiful female faces are not average, but vary from the average in a systematic manner, and (2) female beauty can best be explained by a sexual selection viewpoint, whereby selection favors cues that are reliable indicators of fertility
Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Biology · Evolutionary biology · Fertility · Mate choice · Mating · Population · Sexual selection · Sociology · Zoology · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies · Computer Science · Demography · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
Individual differences in women's facial preferences as a function of digit ratio and mental rotation ability
Who is the fairest of them all? The independent effect of attractive features and self-perceived attractiveness on cooperation among women
Facial Attractiveness Is Appraised in a Glance
The Evolutionary Psychology of Facial Beauty
Male facial attractiveness
The Distribution of Attention Across a Talker's Face
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2001 - 2014 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |