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Attractiveness of facial averageness and symmetry in non-western cultures: in search of biologically based standards of beautyG Rhodes
Department of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Perth, WA 6907, Australia
Perception 30:611-25. 2001..We also discuss some limitations of our studies, and consider other lines of converging evidence that may help determine whether preferences for average and symmetric faces are biologically based...
Perceptual adaptation to facial asymmetriesGillian Rhodes
University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
Psychon Bull Rev 16:503-8. 2009..Parallel changes occurred for attractiveness. We suggest that perceptual adaptation may provide the proximate mechanism for an evolutionarily adaptive focus on FAs...- Attractiveness of own-race, other-race, and mixed-race facesGillian Rhodes
Department of Psychology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
Perception 34:319-40. 2005..These results suggest that signs of health may be more important than prototypicality in making average faces attractive... - Sex-specific norms code face identityGillian Rhodes
FaceLab, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
J Vis 11:1. 2011..We suggest that the use of category-specific norms may increase coding efficiency and help us discriminate thousands of faces despite their similarity as patterns... 
Higher-level mechanisms detect facial symmetryGillian Rhodes
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 272:1379-84. 2005....- The evolutionary psychology of facial beautyGillian Rhodes
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
Annu Rev Psychol 57:199-226. 2006..Others have argued that they may simply be by-products of the way brains process information. Although often presented as alternatives, I argue that both kinds of selection pressures may have shaped our perceptions of facial beauty... - Adaptive norm-based coding of facial identityGillian Rhodes
School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
Vision Res 46:2977-87. 2006..Component identities were also harder to detect in morphs of opposite than non-opposite face pairs. We propose an adaptive norm-based coding model of face identity... - The timecourse of higher-level face aftereffectsGillian Rhodes
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
Vision Res 47:2291-6. 2007..They also reinforce the perceptual nature of face aftereffects, ruling out demand characteristics and other post-perceptual factors as plausible accounts... - Expert face coding: configural and component coding of own-race and other-race facesGillian Rhodes
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
Psychon Bull Rev 13:499-505. 2006..These results challenge explanations of face expertise that rely solely on configural and holistic processing, and also call into question the widespread interpretation of large inversion decrements as diagnostic of configural coding... - Adaptive face coding and discrimination around the average faceGillian Rhodes
The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
Vision Res 47:974-89. 2007..We conclude that adaptive face coding does not enhance discrimination around the average face... - Perceptual adaptation helps us identify facesGillian Rhodes
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
Vision Res 50:963-8. 2010.... - Perceived health contributes to the attractiveness of facial symmetry, averageness, and sexual dimorphismGillian Rhodes
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
Perception 36:1244-52. 2007..These results show that perceptions of attractiveness are sensitive to a healthy appearance, and are consistent with the hypothesis that preferences may be adaptations for mate choice... - Does perceived race affect discrimination and recognition of ambiguous-race faces? A test of the sociocognitive hypothesisGillian Rhodes
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Australia
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 36:217-23. 2010..These results provide no support for the sociocognitive hypothesis. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)... - Orientation-sensitivity of face identity aftereffectsGillian Rhodes
School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia, Australia
Vision Res 49:2379-85. 2009..With orientation varied within participants, the results were less clear. We suggest that adaptation of expert face-coding mechanisms can contribute to face identity aftereffects, although the effect may not be very robust... - Specialised higher-level mechanisms for facial-symmetry perception: evidence from orientation-tuning functionsGillian Rhodes
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
Perception 36:1804-12. 2007..Taken together, the results implicate specialised, higher-level mechanisms in the detection of, and preference for, facial symmetry... - The fusiform face area and occipital face area show sensitivity to spatial relations in facesGillian Rhodes
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
Eur J Neurosci 30:721-33. 2009..We suggest that the sensitivity of the FFA and right OFA to spatial relations in faces may contribute to our impressive ability to individuate faces despite their similarity as visual patterns... - Contact and other-race effects in configural and component processing of facesGillian Rhodes
University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Br J Psychol 100:717-28. 2009..However, as found for recognition memory generally, the contact effects were small, indicating that other factors must play a substantial role in cross-race differences in face memory... - Race coding and the other-race effect in face recognitionGillian Rhodes
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
Perception 38:232-41. 2009..We suggest that poorer recognition of other-race faces may reflect reduced perceptual expertise with such faces and perhaps reduced motivation to individuate them... - Orientation-contingent face aftereffects and implications for face-coding mechanismsGillian Rhodes
University of Western Australia, Stirling Highway, Crawley, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
Curr Biol 14:2119-23. 2004.... - Sex-typicality and attractiveness: are supermale and superfemale faces super-attractive?G Rhodes
University of Western Australia and University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Br J Psychol 91:125-40. 2000..These results indicate that feminization, rather than sex exaggeration per se, is attractive in human faces, and they corroborate similar findings by Perrett et al. (1998)... - Facial distinctiveness and the power of caricaturesG Rhodes
Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Perception 26:207-23. 1997.... - Is the fusiform face area specialized for faces, individuation, or expert individuation?Gillian Rhodes
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth, Australia
J Cogn Neurosci 16:189-203. 2004.... - Fitting the mind to the world: face adaptation and attractiveness aftereffectsGillian Rhodes
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Psychol Sci 14:558-66. 2003..Recalibration of preferences may have important consequences, given the powerful effects of perceived attractiveness on person perception, mate choice, social interactions, and social outcomes for individuals... - Are average and symmetric faces attractive to infants? Discrimination and looking preferencesGillian Rhodes
Department of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Perth, Australia
Perception 31:315-21. 2002..We suggest that the infant looking behaviour may reflect a novelty preference rather than an aesthetic preference... - Does sexual dimorphism in human faces signal health?Gillian Rhodes
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 270:S93-5. 2003..However, they suggest that any health-related evolutionary benefits obtained from preferences for attractive facial traits may be weak... - Body dissatisfaction and attentional bias to thin bodiesRebecca Glauert
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Int J Eat Disord 43:42-9. 2010..Evidence for attentional biases to weight- and shape-related information in women with eating concerns is inconclusive... - Enhanced attention amplifies face adaptationGillian Rhodes
ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Australia
Vision Res 51:1811-9. 2011..These results highlight the potential to facilitate adaptive updating of face-coding mechanisms by strategic deployment of attentional resources... - Broadly tuned, view-specific coding of face shape: opposing figural aftereffects can be induced in different viewsLinda Jeffery
The University of Western Australia, School of Psychology, 35 Stirling Highway, M304, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
Vision Res 47:3070-7. 2007..Cancellation increased monotonically as the angle between two adapting views decreased, consistent with broadly tuned, view-specific coding of face shape... - Opposite aftereffects for Chinese and Caucasian faces are selective for social category information and not just physical face differencesEmma Jaquet
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 60:1457-67. 2007..g., contracted SuperChinese and expanded Chinese faces). These results suggest that opposite aftereffects for Chinese and Caucasian faces reflect the recalibration of face neurons tuned to high-level social category information... - Four-to-six-year-old children use norm-based coding in face-spaceLinda Jeffery
School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
J Vis 10:18. 2010.... - Recognizing the un-real McCoy: priming and the modularity of face recognitionTherese F Faulkner
University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia
Psychon Bull Rev 9:327-34. 2002..Neither effect could be explained as a speed-accuracy tradeoff. These results fail to support Fodor's conjecture that face processing is encapsulated... - Face recognition impairments despite normal holistic processing and face space coding: evidence from a case of developmental prosopagnosiaTirta Susilo
Department of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Cogn Neuropsychol 27:636-64. 2010..g., part-based processing). Our article also highlights the importance of internal task reliability in drawing inferences from single-case studies... - Preferences across the menstrual cycle for masculinity and symmetry in photographs of male faces and bodiesMarianne Peters
Centre for Evolutionary Biology, School of Animal Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
PLoS ONE 4:e4138. 2009..These studies have required participants to choose between subtle variations in computer-generated stimuli, and preferences for more natural stimuli have not been investigated... - Distinguishing norm-based from exemplar-based coding of identity in children: evidence from face identity aftereffectsLinda Jeffery
ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia, Australia
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 37:1824-40. 2011..We conclude that children's poor face identification skills cannot be attributed to a failure to use norm-based coding... - Facial attractiveness ratings from video-clips and static images tell the same storyGillian Rhodes
ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and Its Disorders and School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
PLoS ONE 6:e26653. 2011..We speculate that this validity may stem from our tendency to make rapid and robust judgements of attractiveness... - The relationship between sexual dimorphism in human faces and fluctuating asymmetryNicole Koehler
School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 271:S233-6. 2004..Our results provide validation of our ability to measure aspects of asymmetry that are perceived to be symmetrical, and aspects of sexual dimorphism that are perceived as feminine in females and masculine in males... - Genetic diversity revealed in human facesHanne C Lie
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley WA 6009, Australia
Evolution 62:2473-86. 2008..Thus, attractive facial characteristics appear to provide visual cues to genetic quality in both males and females, supporting the view that face preferences have been shaped by selection pressures to identify high-quality mates... - It's not just average faces that are attractive: computer-manipulated averageness makes birds, fish, and automobiles attractiveJamin Halberstadt
Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Psychon Bull Rev 10:149-56. 2003..The other is a preference for averageness per se, which was found for birds and fish, but not for automobiles, and may reflect a preference for features signaling genetic quality in living organisms, including conspecifics... - Are preschoolers sensitive to configural information in faces?Elizabeth Pellicano
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia
Dev Sci 9:270-7. 2006..This effect was lost when faces were inverted. The results suggest that adult-like styles of face processing are present from 4 years of age... - The influence of divided attention on holistic face perceptionRomina Palermo
Department of Psychology, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia 6009
Cognition 82:225-57. 2002..The findings emphasize the differences in processing of upright, fractured and inverted faces and suggest that there are limitations in the number of faces that can be holistically coded in a brief time... - How well does second-to-fourth-digit ratio in hands correlate with other indications of masculinity in males?Nicole Koehler
School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 271:S296-8. 2004..We failed to find significant correlations between 2D:4D ratios and these traits... - Familiar other-race faces show normal holistic processing and are robust to perceptual stressElinor McKone
School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Perception 36:224-48. 2007..We conclude that practice with other-race individuals can rapidly engage normal face-processing mechanisms... - Body dissatisfaction and the effects of perceptual exposure on body norms and idealsRebecca Glauert
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Int J Eat Disord 42:443-52. 2009..It is often suggested that sociocultural processes are the main cause of such widespread dissatisfaction. Here, we consider how perceptual effects may influence ideas of body normality and body ideals... - Identification of own-race and other-race faces: implications for the representation of race in face spaceGraham Byatt
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
Psychon Bull Rev 11:735-41. 2004..The results are discussed in relation to the standard MDS account of race effects and also an alternative "race-feature" hypothesis... - Contact, configural coding and the other-race effect in face recognitionKirsten J Hancock
University of Western Australia, Australia
Br J Psychol 99:45-56. 2008..Importantly, smaller cross-race differences in configural coding were also associated with a smaller ORE in face recognition... - View-specific coding of face shapeLinda Jeffery
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
Psychol Sci 17:501-5. 2006..The aftereffects survived a size change between adaptation and test faces (Experiment 2), a result that rules out low-level adaptation as an explanation. These results provide strong evidence that face-shape coding is view-specific... - Face aftereffects indicate dissociable, but not distinct, coding of male and female facesEmma Jaquet
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 34:101-12. 2008..Taken together, these results indicate that both common and sex-selective mechanisms code male and female faces... - Insights into the development of face recognition mechanisms revealed by face aftereffectsLinda Jeffery
ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
Br J Psychol 102:799-815. 2011..These findings are consistent with an emerging picture that the key mechanisms of face perception are present early in childhood... - Holistic processing of faces in preschool children and adultsElizabeth Pellicano
University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
Psychol Sci 14:618-22. 2003.... - Does genetic diversity predict health in humans?Hanne C Lie
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
PLoS ONE 4:e6391. 2009..NonMHC-d(2) has previously been found to predict male preferences for female faces. Thus, the current findings suggest that nonMHC diversity may play a role in both natural and sexual selection acting on human populations... - Perceptual adaptation affects attractiveness of female bodiesChristopher Winkler
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Australia
Br J Psychol 96:141-54. 2005..Substantial changes in what looked normal were accompanied by congruent changes in what looked attractive, suggesting that a normal or average body shape may function as a reference point against which body attractiveness is judged... - Atypical updating of face representations with experience in children with autismLouise Ewing
ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Australia
Dev Sci 16:116-23. 2013.... - Facial expressions of threat influence perceived gaze direction in 8 year-oldsGillian Rhodes
ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
PLoS ONE 7:e49317. 2012..Alternatively, children may be particularly sensitive to anger in adult faces... - Reduced face identity aftereffects in relatives of children with autismChiara Fiorentini
Institute of Child Health, University College London, London Department of Psychology, The Australian National University, Australia ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Australia Electronic address
Neuropsychologia 50:2926-32. 2012..e., norm-based) but less efficient than in relatives of typical children. This finding points towards the possibility that diminished adaptive mechanisms might represent a neurocognitive endophenotype for autism... - Low pitched voices are perceived as masculine and attractive but do they predict semen quality in men?Leigh W Simmons
Centre for Evolutionary Biology, School of Animal Biology M092, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
PLoS ONE 6:e29271. 2011..These data are more consistent with a trade off between sperm production and male investment in competing for and attracting females, than with the phenotype-linked fertility hypothesis... - Women can judge sexual unfaithfulness from unfamiliar men's facesGillian Rhodes
ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia
Biol Lett 9:20120908. 2013..We conclude that impressions of sexual faithfulness from faces have a kernel of truth, at least for women, and that they may help people assess the quality of potential mates about whom they have minimal behavioural information... - Seeing happy emotion in fearful and angry faces: qualitative analysis of facial expression recognition in a bilateral amygdala-damaged patientWataru Sato
Department of Cognitive Psychology in Education, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Cortex 38:727-42. 2002..More specifically, amygdala-damaged patients seem to give positively biased evaluations for these negative facial expressions... - [Time-space characteristics in cognition of facial expressions and eye contact: Psychological basis in communication]Sakiko Yoshikawa
Seishin Shinkeigaku Zasshi 104:125-32. 2002 - Dynamic facial expressions of emotion induce representational momentumSakiko Yoshikawa
Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University, Sakyo ku, Kyoto, Japan
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 8:25-31. 2008..This perceptual enhancement suggests that dynamic information facilitates shape processing in facial expression, which leads to the efficient detection of other people's emotional changes from their faces... - Enhanced neural activity in response to dynamic facial expressions of emotion: an fMRI studyWataru Sato
Department of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University Yoshida nihonmatsucho, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606 8501, Japan
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 20:81-91. 2004..In the same manner, the right ventral premotor cortex was also activated. These results identify the neural substrate for enhanced emotional, perceptual/cognitive, and motor processing of dynamic facial expressions of emotion... - Influence of altered occlusal plane on rabbit temporomandibular joint cartilageSakiko Yoshikawa
Division of Orofacial Functions and Orthodontics, Kyushu Dental College, Manazuru, Kitakyushu, Japan
J Oral Pathol Med 37:30-7. 2008..The aim of this study was to examine the histopathological influence of an altered occlusal plane on rabbit TMJ cartilage... - The amygdala processes the emotional significance of facial expressions: an fMRI investigation using the interaction between expression and face directionWataru Sato
Department of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida Nihonmatsucho, Sakyo, Kyoto 606 8501, Japan
Neuroimage 22:1006-13. 2004.... - Spontaneous facial mimicry in response to dynamic facial expressionsWataru Sato
Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo ku, Kyoto 606 8501, Japan
Cognition 104:1-18. 2007..These results indicate that dynamic facial expressions elicit spontaneous and rapid facial mimicry, which functions both as a form of intra-individual processing and as inter-individual communication...