ATTRACTIVE FACES ARE ONLY AVERAGE
ATTRACTIVE FACES ARE ONLY AVERAGE
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9280.1990.tb00079.x
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发表时间：
1990-03-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
ROGGMAN, LA
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作者：
LANGLOIS, JH;ROGGMAN, LA
几个世纪以来，科学家和哲学家一直在寻找一个简洁的答案来回答什么是美。我们从进化和信息处理的角度来处理这个问题，并预测代表人口平均值的面孔将被一致地认为是有吸引力的。为了验证这一假设，我们对男性和女性的面部样本进行了数字化处理，并对它们进行了数学平均，然后让成年人判断个人面部和计算机生成的合成图像的吸引力。男性（三个样本）和女性（三个样本）的合成脸被认为比组成合成图的几乎所有个人脸都更有吸引力。一个强线性趋势也表明，随着更多的面孔被输入，合成面孔变得更有吸引力。这些数据表明，有吸引力的面孔只是平均水平，这与进化压力相一致，有利于接近人口平均值的特征，以及有利于原型类别成员的认知过程。
Scientists and philosophers have searched for centuries for a parsimonious answer to the question of what constitutes beauty. We approached this problem from both an evolutionary and information-processing rationale and predicted that faces representing the average value of the population would be consistently judged as attractive. To evaluate this hypothesis, we digitized samples of male and female faces, mathematically averaged them, and had adults judge the attractiveness of both the individual faces and the computer-generated composite images. Both male (three samples) and female (three samples) composite faces were judged as more attractive than almost all the individual faces comprising the composites. A strong linear trend also revealed that the composite faces became more attractive as more faces were entered. These data showing that attractive faces are only average are consistent with evolutionary pressures that favor characteristics close to the mean of the population and with cognitive processes that favor prototypical category members.