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Facial Averageness

Facial Averageness is a facial proportion metric that quantifies the degree to which an individual face resembles the statistical mean configuration derived from a population sample, distinguished by its reliance on morphometric symmetry and feature alignment to represent prototypical facial structure.

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2017–2026

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Variants

Facial Prototypicality

Parents

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Human (Homo sapiens) facial attractiveness and sexual selection: The role of symmetry and averageness.

Karl Grammer, Randy Thornhill · Journal of comparative psychology · 1994 · 1.1K citations

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Facial attractiveness

Steven W. Gangestad · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 1999 · 930 citations

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What Is Average and What Is Not Average About Attractive Faces?

Judith H. Langlois, Lori A. Roggman, Lisa Musselman · Psychological Science · 1994 · 376 citations

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Attractiveness of Facial Averageness and Symmetry in Non-Western Cultures: In Search of Biologically Based Standards of Beauty

Gillian Rhodes, Sakiko Yoshikawa, Alison Clark et al. · Perception · 2001 · 348 citations

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Robust representations for face recognition: The power of averages

A. Mike Burton, Rob Jenkins, Peter Hancock et al. · Cognitive Psychology · 2005 · 316 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. GR
    Gillian Rhodes

    The University of Western Australia, Australia

    8 publications · 1.6K citations

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  2. JH
    Judith H. Langlois

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    6 publications · 639 citations

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  3. LA
    Lori A. Roggman

    Utah State University, United States

    3 publications · 448 citations

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  4. AC
    Anthony C. Little

    University of Stirling, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 371 citations

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  5. PM
    P. Matthew Bronstad

    Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, United States

    2 publications · 95 citations

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Institutions

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  1. The University of Western Australia

    Perth, Australia

    6 h-index

    16 publications

    3.9K citations

  2. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    5 h-index

    12 publications

    1.3K citations

  3. University of St Andrews

    St Andrews, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    562 citations

  4. University of Stirling

    Stirling, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    687 citations

  5. Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

    Tübingen, Germany

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    390 citations

  6. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    514 citations

  7. University of Canterbury

    Christchurch, New Zealand

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    1.5K citations

  8. Polish Academy of Sciences

    Warsaw, Poland

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    30 citations

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  1. Psychological Science

    7 publications · 1.4K citations

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  2. Perception

    7 publications · 725 citations

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  4. Journal of comparative psychology

    2 publications · 1.2K citations

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  5. Acta Psychologica

    2 publications · 436 citations

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