Article
What Is Average and What Is Not Average About Attractive Faces?
Psychological Science
Document Type
Article
Publisher
SAGE
Publication Date
7-1-1994
Disciplines
Abstract
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
Citation Information
Langlois, J. H., Roggman, L. A., & Musselman, L. (1994). What's average and what's not about
attractive faces. Psychological Science, 5, 214-220.
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