Effects of sexual dimorphism on facial attractiveness

1998/08/01 by D. I. Perrett, David I. Perrett, K. J. Lee +11 · 33 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · Psychology · #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

paper · doi:10.1038/29772

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Citations

• Sexual Selection, Physical Attractiveness, and Facial Neoteny: Cross-cultural Evidence and Implications [and Comments and Reply]
• The evolutionary psychology of physical attractiveness: Sexual selection and human morphology
• "Their ideas of beauty are, on the whole, the same as ours": Consistency and variability in the cross-cultural perception of female physical attractiveness.
• Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures
• Attractive Faces Are Only Average

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