Computer graphic studies of the role of facial similarity in judgements of attractiveness

Penton-Voak, Ian S.; Perrett, David; Peirce, Jonathan W.

doi:10.1007/s12144-999-1020-4

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“…As feminized male faces are relatively more attractive than masculinized female faces (Cunningham, Barbee, & Pike, 1990;Penton-Voak & Perrett, 2000;Penton-Voak et al, 1999b;Perrett et al, 1998;Scarbrough & Johnston, 2005), the attractiveness of female composites, having been warped with opposite-sex images, will be lower than that of male composites. Since images in all tableaus were matched by attractiveness (except where it was intended not to do so), the masculinization/feminization effect probably did not have any crucial influence on the results.…”

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“…Experimentally produced self-resemblance, a potential cue of kinship, has been shown to increase the attractiveness of same-sex faces (DeBruine, 2004;DeBruine, Jones, & Perrett, 2005), trusting behavior in a trust game (DeBruine, 2002), and trustworthiness judgements (DeBruine, 2005). However, the last study did not find positive regard of self-resembling faces in a sexual context, whereas Penton-Voak, Perrett, and Peirce (1999b) did. This ambiguity of behavioral data on homogamous mate preference stays in contradiction with the results of studies investigating similarity of spouses (Bereczkei et al, 2002(Bereczkei et al, , 2004Pawlowski, 2003;Spuhler, 1968).…”

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“…Hypothetical considerationsand previous studies (Penton-Voak et al, 1999b;Saxton, Little, Rowland, Gao, & Roberts, 2009)-suggest that attractiveness judgements present a primary filter when evaluating potential mates. A moderate level of similarity may also enhance the attractiveness of a potential mate's face (Thiessen, 1999) but this effect may be attenuated by preferences for features which others also rate as attractive.…”

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Preference for Facial Self-Resemblance and Attractiveness in Human Mate Choice

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Empirical studies present considerably consistent data about human mate choice, from which we may infer that it tends to be homogamous for various traits. However, different experiments on facial resemblance led to contradictory results. To obtain additional data about the preference for self-resembling potential mates, male and female composite faces were modified in a manner to resemble subjects. Volunteers were asked to choose a potential partner from three images in different situations: self-resembling faces, non-resembling faces (both with the same degree of other-rated attractiveness), and images which were rated by others as more attractive than the self-resembling faces. Women did not show any preference for similarity; they preferred the most attractive male and female faces. In contrast, men preferred the most attractive images of the opposite sex to self-resembling faces and the self-resembling to non-resembling faces. The self-resemblance of same-sex faces was preferred by neither men nor women. Our results support the hypothesis that both facial similarity (i.e., cues of shared genes) and observer-independent features of attractiveness (i.e., honest signals of genetic quality) play an important role in males' mate choice. The lack of choice for self-resemblance on the female side in this particular study might reflect their more complex decision-making rules that are probably based on other cues beside visual stimuli.

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Preference for Facial Self-Resemblance and Attractiveness in Human Mate Choice

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“…According to the narcissism data presented in Table 4, the statistical results indicated that one narcissistic personality dimension might have caused the phenomenon of facial similarity (Penton-Voak et al, 1999). The painters who exhibited the self-sufficiency component, which has been argued to be an indicator of the positive personality trait of "non-aggression", might also exhibit an underlying tendency for producing self-similar images (Reidy et al, 2008).…”

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“…Additionally, people are more likely to be attracted to their own faces (Little et al, 2003(Little et al, , 2011Bereczkei et al, 2002;Penton-Voak et al, 1999;Zajonc et al, 1987). Penton-Voak et al (1999) asked participants to judge the attractiveness of facial photos. Using computer graphic techniques, opposite sex facial stimuli were generated from photographs of the participant.…”

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The Relationship between Sketch and Personality: The Narcissistic Personality Inventory Research

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2015

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This study investigated 73 designed beginners who drew the Venus plaster and completed the 7dimensional Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) test. Next, 5-point scales were used to compare the degrees of the facial similarity between the paintings and photos of the beginners who created the paintings. The results indicated that over half of the paintings were similar to the photos of the painters, and the similarity was significantly correlated with narcissism. For example, the painters with self-sufficient personalities were more likely to exhibit assertiveness, independence, self-confidence, and need for achievement; thus, they were automatically drawn to their own sense of personal feelings as projected onto the drawings, which naturally tended to look like themselves. These results might help the educators in the design field identify the likely NPI-associated psychological and behavioral outcomes of design beginners by observing the contexts of their paintings.

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