Journal article
The Influence of Recent Experience on Perceptions of Attractiveness
Abstract
Adults rate average faces as more attractive than most of the faces used in the creation of the average. One explanation for this is that average faces appear as both more familiar and more attractive because they resemble internal face prototypes formed from experience. Here we evaluated that explanation by examining the influence of recent experience on participants' subsequent judgments of attractiveness. Participants first performed a …
Authors
Cooper PA; Maurer D
Journal
Perception, Vol. 37, No. 8, pp. 1216–1226
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Publication Date
August 2008
DOI
10.1068/p5865
ISSN
0301-0066