Researchers have highlighted numerous sociocultural factors that have been shown to
underpin human appearance enhancement practices, including the influence of peers …

Across industrialized cultures, relatively slender women are often viewed as prestigious and
attractive. In contrast, in less industrialized cultures and in areas where resources are …

People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their
physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to …

This chapter reviews the evolutionary and psychological literatures on the role of physical
appearance in contemporary society and its relationship with plastic surgery. The discussion …

Appearance alterations are an important part of human history, culture, and evolution that
can serve many functions. Cross-culturally, women more than men use makeup as a …

It was once widely believed that standards of beauty were arbitrarily variable. Recent
research suggests, however, that people's views of facial attractiveness are remarkably …

Growing evidence shows that features we find attractive in members of the opposite sex
signal important underlying dimensions of health and reproductive viability. It has been …

Symmetry, averageness, and sexual dimorphism (femininity in female faces, masculinity in
male faces) are attractive in faces. Many have suggested that preferences for these traits …

Studies of physical attractiveness have long emphasized the constituent features that make
faces and bodies attractive, such as symmetry, skin texture, and waist-to-hip ratio. Few …

Psychological evidence suggests that sex differences in morphology have been modified by
sexual selection so as to attract mates (intersexual selection) or intimidate rivals (intrasexual …