New "golden" ratios for facial beauty

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 149-154

  Pallett, Pamela M ^a   Link, Stephen ^a   Lee, Kang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Face perception; Psychophysics; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE; FACE ASYMMETRY; FACIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOUTH; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

BEAUTY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY;

EID: 72749100640     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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