Physical attractiveness: Interpersonal and intrapersonal variability of assessments

Strzałko, Jan; Kaszycka, Katarzyna A.

doi:10.1080/19485565.1992.9988813

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“…Several other studies have demonstrated this phenomenon e attractive individuals usually perceive that others think they are attractive and consider themselves to be attractive (higher self-esteem). 15 The eyes were the feature most self-liked in this study. This correlates with the perception that Indian women are often 'known' for their beautiful Figure 2 The same subject was computer morphed using measurements obtained for the average group (A, C, & E) and measurements obtained for the attractive group (B, D, & F).…”

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Anthropometric and aesthetic analysis of the Indian American woman's face

Husein

Sepehr

Garg

et al. 2010

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery

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Facial measurements in IAW are much different from NAWW, and these results will assist in preoperative planning. Several features are correlated with attractiveness in IAW: larger and wider-set eyes, a smaller midface, a smaller nose with greater tip rotation, smaller ears and a larger mouth. Attractive IAW display many measurements typical of average IAW and several measurements that reflect average NAWW values. These results contribute to concepts of transcultural aesthetics--for a minority ethnic group, facial beauty appears to be an assimilation of deep-rooted ethnic features with prevailing cultural traits and aesthetic standards.

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Anthropometric and aesthetic analysis of the Indian American woman's face

Husein

Sepehr

Garg

et al. 2010

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery

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“…The importance of physical attractiveness across different cultures was the subject of several studies, as recently reviewed by Bohne et al [1]. Although the perception of beauty is essentially subjective, there appear to be some culture-specific notions of physical attractiveness [2]. North Americans, for example, rely more heavily on the appearance and on the physical attractiveness in their perception of human differences than do their Japanese and Chinese counterparts [3].…”

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A Sociodemographic, Phenomenological, and Long-Term Follow-up Study of Patients with Body Dysmorphic Disorder in Brazil

Fontenelle

Telles

Nazar

et al. 2006

Int J Psychiatry Med

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“…The most well-known demonstration of the beauty in averageness effect is probably in the domain of human faces. A large number of studies have shown that humans find faces with average features more beautiful and attractive (e.g., Langlois andRoggman 1990, Strzalko andKaszycka 1991). This effect has also been demonstrated for music performances (Repp 1997), polygons, drawings, and paintings (Martindale et al 1990), and words/exemplars (Martindale et al 1988).…”

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Idea Generation, Creativity, and Prototypicality

2017

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We explore the use of big data tools to shed new light on the idea generation process, automatically "read" ideas to identify promising ones, and help people be more creative. The literature suggests that creativity results from the optimal balance between novelty and familiarity, which can be measured based on the combinations of words in an idea. We build semantic networks where nodes represent word stems in a particular idea generation topic, and edge weights capture the degree of novelty versus familiarity of word stem combinations (i.e., the weight of an edge that connects two word stems measures their scaled co-occurrence in the relevant language). Each idea contains a set of word stems, which form a semantic subnetwork. The edge weight distribution in that subnetwork reflects how the idea balances novelty with familiarity. Based on the "beauty in averageness" effect, we hypothesize that ideas with semantic subnetworks that have a more prototypical edge weight distribution are judged as more creative. We show this effect in eight studies involving over 4,000 ideas across multiple domains. Practically, we demonstrate how our research can be used to automatically identify promising ideas and recommend words to users on the fly to help them improve their ideas. History: Fred Feinberg served as the senior editor and Gerard Tellis served as associate editor for this article.

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Physical attractiveness: Interpersonal and intrapersonal variability of assessments

Cited by 16 publications

References 7 publications

Anthropometric and aesthetic analysis of the Indian American woman's face

Anthropometric and aesthetic analysis of the Indian American woman's face

A Sociodemographic, Phenomenological, and Long-Term Follow-up Study of Patients with Body Dysmorphic Disorder in Brazil

Idea Generation, Creativity, and Prototypicality

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