Week Ten (Tutorial)

Question 1

Two perspectives regarding symmetry being an attractive face type

Answer 1

Evolutionary advantage = symmetry = healthy
Perceptual bias = visual systems can more easily process symmetrical stimuli

Question 2

What did Little & Jones test?

Answer 2

Evolutionary advantage and perceptual bias accounts of symmetry preferences

Question 3

What did Little & Jones find?

Answer 3

Symmetric faces judged more attractive than asymmetric faces but not when they were both inverted

Question 4

What did Perrett et al. 1994 aim to test?

Answer 4

Whether ‘attractive faces are only average’