Face preferences affect a diverse range of critical social outcomes, from mate choices and
decisions about platonic relationships to hiring decisions and decisions about social …

What makes a face attractive and why do we have the preferences we do? Emergence of
preferences early in development and cross-cultural agreement on attractiveness challenge …

We propose that aesthetic pleasure is a funnction of the perceiver's processing dynamics:
The more fluently perceivers can process an object, the more positive their aesthetic …

Humans are unique in their range of environments and in the nature and diversity of their
behavioral adaptations. While a variety of local genetic adaptations exist within our species …

The affect system, in its position to monitor organismic–environmental transactions, may be
sensitive to the internal dynamics of information processing. Hence, the authors predicted …

Humans in societies around the world discriminate between potential mates on the basis of
attractiveness in ways that can dramatically affect their lives. From an evolutionary …

Why does nature love symmetry? In Asymmetry, Developmental Stability and Evolution, M--
oslash--; ller and Swaddle analyse the evolutionary implications of symmetry. They advance …

Competition over mates takes many forms and has far-reaching consequences for many
organisms. Recent work suggests that relative reproductive rates of males and females …

During courtship, signals are sent between the sexes, and received signals contain
information that forms the basis of decision making. Much is known about signal content, but …

Symmetry may act as a marker of phenotypic and genetic quality and is preferred during
mate selection in a variety of species. Measures of human body symmetry correlate with …