Brain asymmetry and facial attractiveness: Facial beauty is not simply in the eye of the beholder

• Published in: Neuropsychologia Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 471 - 476
• Main Authors: Chen, Audrey C, German, Craig, W. Zaidel, Dahlia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.04.1997; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; aesthetics; Beauty; Biological and medical sciences; brain asymmetry; evolution; Face; face asymmetry; facial physiognomy; Female; Functional Laterality - physiology; hemispheric specialization; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Physiognomy; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Sex Characteristics; Social behavior disorders. Criminal behavior. Delinquency; Social Perception; face; beauty; hemispheric specialization; evolution; face asymmetry; aesthetics; facial physiognomy; brain asymmetry; Human; Hemispheric specialization; Biological evolution; Central nervous system; Physical attraction; Face; Laterality; Aesthetic perception; Brain (vertebrata)

We recently reported finding asymmetry in the appearance of beauty on the face Zuidel et al., Neuropsychologia, Vol. 33, pp. 649–655, 1995. Here, we investigated whether facial beauty is a stable characteristic (on the owner's very face) or is in the perceptual space of the observer. We call th...