Judging Others by Your Own Standards: Attractiveness of Primate Faces as Seen by Human Respondents.

ABSTRACT: The aspects of facial attractiveness have been widely studied, especially within the context of evolutionary psychology, which proposes that aesthetic judgements of human faces are shaped by biologically based standards of beauty reflecting the mate quality. However, the faces of primates, who are very similar to us yet still considered non-human, remain neglected. In this paper, we aimed to study the facial attractiveness of non-human primates as judged by human respondents. We asked 286 Czech respondents to score photos of 107 primate species according to their perceived "beauty." Then, we analyzed factors affecting the scores including morphology, colors, and human-likeness. We found that the three main primate groups were each scored using different cues. The proportions of inner facia

SUBMITTER: Radlova S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6297365 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature