An Adult Developmental Approach to Perceived Facial Attractiveness and Distinctiveness.

ABSTRACT: Attractiveness and distinctiveness constitute facial features with high biological and social relevance. Bringing a developmental perspective to research on social-cognitive face perception, we used a large set of faces taken from the FACES Lifespan Database to examine effects of face and perceiver characteristics on subjective evaluations of attractiveness and distinctiveness in young (20-31 years), middle-aged (44-55 years), and older (70-81 years) men and women. We report novel findings supporting variations by face and perceiver age, in interaction with gender and emotion: although older and middle-aged compared to young perceivers generally rated faces of all ages as more attractive, young perceivers gave relatively higher attractiveness ratings to young compared to middle-aged and ol

SUBMITTER: Ebner NC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5949528 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature