Face preferences affect a diverse range of critical social outcomes, from mate choices and
decisions about platonic relationships to hiring decisions and decisions about social …

Common maxims about beauty suggest that attractiveness is not important in life. In contrast,
both fitness-related evolutionary theory and socialization theory suggest that attractiveness …

Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim
that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that …

Interest in and research on disgust has surged over the past few decades. The field,
however, still lacks a coherent theoretical framework for understanding the evolved function …

People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual
domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who …

We propose that aesthetic pleasure is a funnction of the perceiver's processing dynamics:
The more fluently perceivers can process an object, the more positive their aesthetic …

What is the function of disgust? Whereas traditional models have suggested that disgust
serves to protect the self or neutralize reminders of our animal nature, an evolutionary …

A reconceptualization of stigma is presented that changes the emphasis from the
devaluation of an individual's identity to the process by which individuals who satisfy certain …

What makes a face attractive and why do we have the preferences we do? Emergence of
preferences early in development and cross-cultural agreement on attractiveness challenge …

Hypothesized from the parasite theory of sexual selection that men (Homo sapiens) would
prefer averageness and symmetry in women's faces, that women would prefer averageness …