Spotlight: Attractive faces are average faces

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Average Women faces in different countries by FaceResearch.org.

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FaceResearch lab run by Ben Jones and Lisa DeBruine,  is based in the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Glasgow, has published results of experiments on Facial Attractiveness. 
The concept of average faces was initially tossed in the 1800s by Sir Francis Galton who created composite images of faces by projecting face photographs of many different individuals onto a single piece of photographic film. Now with the advent of technology scientists are experimenting with digital composites, photographs aligned by pupils position followed by standardizing face position.
In "Facial Shape and judgments of female attractiveness" paper submitted by D. I. Perrett, K.A. May and S. Yoshikawa, found out that highly attractive faces are systematically different in shape from average. the similarity of attractive facial characteristics across two cultures is consistent with the claim that such characteristics are functionally significant. 

Reading Faces: Face Value

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4 September 2013

This article is not about physiognomy but scientific approach to understand human emotions and expressions.

What does a face really tell us about someone's personality?

Professor David Perrett of the Perception Lab at St Andrews University has spent the best part of a decade trying to pin down the essence of facial attractiveness.

Perrett is using the most widely accepted model of human personality: the five-factor model. This consists of:

• Openness to experience - creative, original, independent
• Conscientiousness - careful, hard-working, conscientious
• Extraversion - affectionate, talkative, sociable
• Agreeableness - forgiving, sympathetic, warm
• Neuroticism - nervous, worrying, highly strung

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