{"id":234,"date":"2003-05-21T13:38:57","date_gmt":"2003-05-21T18:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=234"},"modified":"2003-05-21T13:38:57","modified_gmt":"2003-05-21T18:38:57","slug":"is_there_in_tru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/21\/is_there_in_tru.html","title":{"rendered":"Is there, in truth, no beauty?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fun German study here that used various morphing technology to rate facial attractiveness<\/a>. Some interesting testing of various previous hyptheses, including “symmetry is beautiful” and “average is beautiful.”<\/p>\n

For female faces, it could be shown that babyface attributes – such as large, round eyes, a large domed forehead and small, short nose and chin lead to a rise in attractiveness values. Only very few (9.5%) of the test subjects found the original adult faces most attractive. Most of the test subjects (90.5%) preferred faces with 10%-50% the proportions of the babyface scheme. This means: Even the most attractive female faces can become more attractive when their proportions are altered towards more babyfaceness. It needs to be explicitly stated, however, that not only male, but also female test subjects found babyface pictures more attractive, and we could not observe any inherent preference of babyfaced pictures in our male test subjects. Again, it is surprising that the most attractive faces do not even exist in reality.<\/p>\n

All sorts of interesting conclusions.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fun German study here that used various morphing technology to rate facial attractiveness. Some interesting testing of various previous hyptheses, including “symmetry is beautiful” and “average is beautiful.” For female…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6384,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/13\/is_there_in_tru.html","url_meta":{"origin":234,"position":0},"title":"Is there, in truth, no beauty?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 13-Sep-04 9:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"A recent study seems to indicate that Newborns have a similar facial aesthetic to adults. 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