Most Average Facial Appearance Effect
A tendency to prefer faces in which the eyes, nose, lips, and other features are close to the average of a population.1
People find faces that approximate their population average more attractive than faces that deviate from their population average. In this context, population refers to the group in which a person lives or was raised, and average refers to the arithmetic mean of the form, size, and position of the facial features. For example, when pictures of many faces within a population are combined (averaged) to form a single composite image, the composite image is similar to the facial configurations of professional models in that population.2
The most average facial appearance effect is likely the ...
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