scholarly journals Data-driven mathematical model of East-Asian facial attractiveness: the relative contributions of shape and reflectance to attractiveness judgements

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 182189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koyo Nakamura ◽  
Katsumi Watanabe
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Facial Attractiveness ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Multiple Cues ◽  
Visual Processes ◽  
Facial Shape ◽  
General Preference ◽  
Face Stimuli ◽  
Prior Hypothesis ◽  
Asian Face

Facial attractiveness is judged through a combination of multiple cues including morphology (facial shape) and skin properties (facial reflectance). While several studies have examined the way in which people in Western cultures judge facial attractiveness, there have been fewer investigations into non-Western attitudes. This is because stimuli that quantitatively vary the attractiveness of non-Western faces are rare. In the present study, we built a model of the attractiveness of East-Asian faces, judged by East-Asian observers. Therefore, 400 computer-generated East-Asian faces were created and attractiveness rating scores were collected from Japanese observers. Data-driven mathematical calculations were used to identify quantitative links between facial attractiveness and shape and reflectance properties, with no prior hypothesis. Results indicate that faces with larger eyes, smaller noses and brighter skin are judged as more attractive, regardless of the sex of the faces, possibly reflecting a general preference for femininity. Shape is shown to be a strong determinant of attractiveness for both male and female faces, while reflectance properties are less important in judging male facial attractiveness. Our model provides a tool to effectively produce East-Asian face stimuli that quantitatively varies attractiveness and can be used to elucidate visual processes related to attractiveness judgements.

scholarly journals Effects of Objective 3-Dimensional Measures of Facial Shape and Symmetry on Perceptions of Facial Attractiveness

2017 ◽  
Vol 75 (9) ◽  
pp. 1958-1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cory D. Hatch ◽  
George L. Wehby ◽  
Nichole L. Nidey ◽  
Lina M. Moreno Uribe
Keyword(s):  
Facial Attractiveness ◽  
3 Dimensional ◽  
Facial Shape

scholarly journals Data-driven enhancement of facial attractiveness

2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommer Leyvand ◽  
Daniel Cohen-Or ◽  
Gideon Dror ◽  
Dani Lischinski
Keyword(s):  
Facial Attractiveness ◽  
Data Driven

scholarly journals What is good is beautiful (and what isn’t, isn’t): How moral character affects perceived facial attractiveness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dexian He ◽  
Clifford Ian Workman ◽  
Xianyou He ◽  
Anjan Chatterjee
Keyword(s):  
Significant Interaction ◽  
Facial Attractiveness ◽  
Moral Character ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Opposite Pattern ◽  
Moral Goodness ◽  
The Face ◽  
Moral Transgressions ◽  
Face Stimuli ◽  
Physically Attractive

A well-documented “beauty-is-good” stereotype is expressed in the expectation that physically attractive people have more positive characteristics. Recent evidence also finds that unattractive faces are associated with negative character inferences. Is what is good (bad) also beautiful (ugly)? Whether this conflation of aesthetic and moral values is bidirectional is not known. This study tested the hypothesis that complementary “good-is-beautiful” and “bad-is-ugly” stereotypes bias aesthetic judgments. Using highly controlled face stimuli, this pre-registered study examined whether moral character influences perceptions of attractiveness for different ages and sexes of faces. Compared to faces paired with non-moral vignettes, those paired with prosocial vignettes were rated significantly more attractive, confident, and friendlier. The opposite pattern characterized faces paired with antisocial vignettes. A significant interaction between vignette type and the age of the face was detected for attractiveness. Moral transgressions affected attractiveness more negatively for younger than older faces. Sex-related differences were not detected. These results suggest information about moral character affects our judgments about facial attractiveness. Better people are considered more attractive. These findings suggest that beliefs about moral goodness and physical beauty influence each other bidirectionally.

scholarly journals The boundary of holistic processing in the appraisal of facial attractiveness

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 171616
Author(s):  
Chang Hong Liu ◽  
Wenfeng Chen
Keyword(s):  
Facial Attractiveness ◽  
Holistic Processing ◽  
Viewing Time ◽  
Facial Features ◽  
Contextual Cues ◽  
The Face ◽  
Face Stimuli ◽  
Oval Shape

Facial attractiveness is often studied on the basis of the internal facial features alone. This study investigated how this exclusion of the external features affects the perception of attractiveness. We studied the effects of two most commonly used methods of exclusion, where the shape of an occluding mask was defined by either the facial outline or an oval. Participants rated attractiveness of the same faces under these conditions. Results showed that faces were consistently rated more attractive when they were masked by an oval shape rather than by their outline (Experiment 1). Attractive faces were more strongly affected by this effect than were less attractive faces when participants were able to control the viewing time. However, unattractive faces benefited more from this effect when the same face stimuli were presented briefly for only 20 ms (Experiment 2). Further manipulation confirmed that the effect was mainly due to the occlusion of a larger area of the external features rather than the regular and symmetrical features of the oval shape (Experiment 3) or lacks contextual cues about the face boundary (Experiment 4). The effect was only relative to masked faces, with no advantage over unmasked faces (Experiment 5), and is likely a result of the interaction between the shape of a mask and the internal features of the face. This holistic effect in the appraisal of facial attractiveness is striking, because the oval shape of the mask is not a part of the face but is the edge of an occluding object.

A landmark-based data-driven approach on 2.5D facial attractiveness computation

2017 ◽  
Vol 238 ◽  
pp. 168-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu Liu ◽  
Yang-Yu Fan ◽  
Zhe Guo ◽  
Ashok Samal ◽  
Afan Ali
Keyword(s):  
Facial Attractiveness ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Data Driven Approach

scholarly journals Data-driven enhancement of facial attractiveness

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommer Leyvand ◽  
Daniel Cohen-Or ◽  
Gideon Dror ◽  
Dani Lischinski
Keyword(s):  
Facial Attractiveness ◽  
Data Driven

scholarly journals A data-driven test for cross-cultural differences in face preferences

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lingshan Zhang ◽  
Iris Jasmin Holzleitner ◽  
Anthony J Lee ◽  
Vanessa Fasolt ◽  
Hongyi Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Facial Attractiveness ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
Data Driven Approach ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Data Driven Test

Previous research has shown strong cross-cultural agreement in facial attractiveness judgments. However, these studies all used a theory-driven approach in which responses to specific facial characteristics are compared between cultures. This approach is constrained by the predictions that can be derived from existing theories and can therefore bias impressions of the extent of cross-cultural agreement in face preferences. We directly addressed this problem by using a data-driven, rather than theory-driven, approach to compare facial attractiveness judgments made by Chinese-born participants who were resident in China, Chinese-born participants currently resident in the UK, and UK-born and -resident White participants. Analyses of the principal components along which faces naturally varied suggested that Chinese and White UK participants used face information in different ways, at least when judging women’s facial attractiveness. In other words, the data-driven approach used in the current study revealed some cross-cultural differences in face preferences that were not apparent in studies using theory-driven approaches.

scholarly journals Facial threat affects trust more strongly than facial attractiveness in women than it does in men

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Brustkern ◽  
Markus Heinrichs ◽  
Mirella Walker ◽  
Bastian Schiller
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Parental Investment ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Facial Attractiveness ◽  
The Other ◽  
Trust Game ◽  
Specific Effects ◽  
Threat Cues ◽  
Face Stimuli ◽  
Facial Threat

AbstractTrust is essential in initiating social relationships. Due to the differential evolution of sex hormones as well as the fitness burdens of producing offspring, evaluations of a potential mating partner’s trustworthiness likely differ across sexes. Here, we explore unknown sex-specific effects of facial attractiveness and threat on trusting other-sex individuals. Ninety-three participants (singles; 46 women) attracted by the other sex performed an incentivized trust game. They had to decide whether to trust individuals of the other sex represented by a priori-created face stimuli gradually varying in the intensities of both attractiveness and threat. Male and female participants trusted attractive and unthreatening-looking individuals more often. However, whereas male participants’ trust behavior was affected equally by attractiveness and threat, female participants’ trust behavior was more strongly affected by threat than by attractiveness. This indicates that a partner’s high facial attractiveness might compensate for high facial threat in male but not female participants. Our findings suggest that men and women prioritize attractiveness and threat differentially, with women paying relatively more attention to threat cues inversely signaling parental investment than to attractiveness cues signaling reproductive fitness. This difference might be attributable to an evolutionary, biologically sex-specific decision regarding parental investment and reproduction behavior.

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