An objective system for measuring facial attractiveness

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 757-774

  Bashour, Mounir ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BEAUTY; CANADA; CEPHALOMETRY; CULTURE; DATA COLLECTION; ESTHETICS; FACE; FACIAL ASYMMETRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; LIBIDO; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTOGRAPHY; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; STUDENTS;

EID: 33748285234     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000207382.60636.1c     Document Type: Article

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