id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_w5hly72zw5c3fdr7h35zc4v2nm Gillian Rhodes Facial symmetry and the perception of beauty 1998 11 .pdf application/pdf 9309 788 61 Similar results were found when subjects judged the faces on appeal as a potential life partner, suggesting that facial symmetry may affect human mate choice. normal levels of asymmetry are more attractive than perfectly symmetric versions of the same faces.:' Similar results have been reported by Langlois et al. face showing a normal level of symmetry, and (3) a lowsymmetry version, created by increasing the differences Reliability for attractiveness, mate appeal, and symmetry ratings was assessed separately for male and female subjects and faces. .001), but ratings of normal and high symmetry did not differ significantly for either male or female faces. In Experiment 1, each subject rated the faces on attractiveness, mate appeal, and symmetry, raising the possibility that the correlations reported above were inflated by Males showed significant correlations between symmetry and attractiveness, and symmetry and mate choice, when rating normal female faces ./cache/work_w5hly72zw5c3fdr7h35zc4v2nm.pdf ./txt/work_w5hly72zw5c3fdr7h35zc4v2nm.txt