Predictors of facial attractiveness and health in humans

YZ Foo, LW Simmons, G Rhodes - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Facial attractiveness has been suggested to provide signals of biological quality, particularly
health, in humans. The attractive traits that have been implicated as signals of biological …

Biological bases of beauty revisited: The effect of symmetry, averageness, and sexual dimorphism on female facial attractiveness

AL Jones, B Jaeger - Symmetry, 2019 - mdpi.com
The factors influencing human female facial attractiveness—symmetry, averageness, and
sexual dimorphism—have been extensively studied. However, recent studies, using …

Reconstructing perceived faces from brain activations with deep adversarial neural decoding

Y Güçlütürk, U Güçlü, K Seeliger… - Advances in neural …, 2017 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Here, we present a novel approach to solve the problem of reconstructing perceived stimuli
from brain responses by combining probabilistic inference with deep learning. Our approach …

The social psychophysics of human face color: Review and recommendations

CA Thorstenson - Social Cognition, 2018 - Guilford Press
An emerging body of research has demonstrated that facial color can influence a range of
social judgments. The current article reviews facial color for three interconnected lines of …

The influence of shape and colour cue classes on facial health perception

AL Jones - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2018 - Elsevier
Facial appearance signals information about an individual, and one trait in particular is
vitally important for social interaction and mate choice decisions: physical health. Facial …

Mate assessment based on physical characteristics: a review and reflection

CD Watkins - Biological Reviews, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Mate choice, and sex differences in romantic behaviours, represented one of the first major
applications of evolutionary biology to human behaviour. This paper reviews Darwinian …

Attractive and healthy-looking male faces do not show higher immunoreactivity

Ž Pátková, D Schwambergová, J Třebická Fialová… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Previous research has indicated that facial attractiveness may provide cues to the
functioning of the immune system. Mating with individuals who have a more effective …

A computational approach to investigating facial attractiveness factors using geometric morphometric analysis and deep learning

T Sano, H Kawabata - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Numerous studies discuss the features that constitute facial attractiveness. In recent years,
computational research has received attention because it can examine facial features …

Exocranial surfaces for sex assessment of the human cranium

B Musilová, J Dupej, J Velemínská… - Forensic science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Determination of sex is one of the most important and challenging disciplines in biological
anthropology. Creating a robust tool for sexing crania is crucial for forensic anthropology …

Femininity in men and masculinity in women is positively related to sociosexuality

K Bártová, Z Štěrbová, MAC Varella… - Personality and Individual …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sociosexuality, ie individual's willingness to engage in uncommitted sex, is systematically
higher in men than in women, and can be considered a male typical trait. However …