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David Perrett is Professor of Psychology at the University of St Andrews. He received the “Golden Brain” award for his discoveries about the way the brain processes faces. He pioneered the use of computer graphics to study the perception of facial attributes such as beauty, health and personality. He is the editor of Processing the Facial Image and Brain Mechanisms for Perception and Memory:: From Neuron to Behaviour.
Louise Barrett is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Lethbridge. She is the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. She is also the author of several popular science books including Cousins, Baboons and Walking with Cavemen.
List of Figures and plates | p. vii |
Acknowledgments | p. x |
Figure credits | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Fish face | |
A brief tour of the face and its origins | p. 7 |
Seeing faces | |
How we recognize faces and why we like them | p. 27 |
A baby's bias | |
Born to be fascinated by faces | p. 50 |
Beauty in balance | |
The proportions that really are universally attractive | p. 72 |
His and hers | |
How sex hormones influence our looks and our attraction to others | p. 97 |
The point of beauty | |
The face you get and the face you leave | p. 119 |
Fit face | |
How our health is reflected in our faces | p. 132 |
Wither the face | |
On the cuteness of babies and the effects of time | p. 157 |
Faces with attitude | |
How the personality we seek in a partner guides our face tastes | p. 177 |
All in the family | |
How parents and peers shape our attraction to faces | p. 200 |
Love potions | |
Transforming attraction to love | p. 217 |
Epilogue | p. 232 |
Notes | p. 235 |
Index | p. 281 |
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