ANT-2301 Lecture Notes - Facial Hair, Fluctuating Asymmetry, Koinophilia
Document Summary
Beauty in the eye of the beholder: standards are culturally determined, and individual perceptions of beauty is learned, langlois studied infants responses to faces differing in attractiveness. Gazed longer at the faces that had been judged as being attractive than those being unattractive. In other experiment; played longer with attractive dolls than non-attractive dolls. Physical beauty the easiest to spot in social interactions. Facial attractiveness: symmetry, koinophilia- idea that when sexual creatures seek a mate, they prefer that mate not to have any unusual or deviant features. Facial attractiveness increases in proportion to the number of faces in the composite. Indicator of health> normal looking = nothing wrong: fluctuating asymmetry (fa) indicates developmental stability in presence of environment and genetic challenges. Low fa (more symmetrical) males report more sexual partners, earlier age of loss of virginity and more offspring than high fa men. Women whose partners have low fa report more orgasms than those who partners have high fa.
