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 …

In the literature on human mate choice, masculine facial morphology is often proposed to be
an intersexual signal of heritable immunocompetence, and hence an important component …

Social media is emerging as a powerful platform for marketing communications. More than
half of the world's population, companies, influencers, and celebrities use social media …

Facial characteristics are an important basis for judgements about gender, emotion,
personality, motivational states and behavioural dispositions. Based on a recent finding of a …

This chapter focuses on (1) outlining an adaptationist perspective on physical
attractiveness,(2) presenting the basic questions that this perspective leads us to ask,(3) …

The links between appearance and health influence human social interactions and are
medically important, yet the facial cues influencing health judgments are unclear, and few …

Skin blood perfusion and oxygenation depends upon cardiovascular, hormonal and
circulatory health in humans and provides socio-sexual signals of underlying physiology …

Previous research has shown that men with higher facial width-to-height ratios (fWHRs)
have higher testosterone and are more aggressive, more powerful, and more financially …

Online peer-to-peer markets, such as Airbnb, often include profile photos of sellers to reduce
anonymity. Ert, Fleischer, and Magen (2016) found that more trustworthy-looking, but not …

Facial symmetry, averageness, sexual dimorphism, and skin colour/texture all serve as cues
to attractiveness, but their role in the perception of health is less clear. This ambiguity could …