What makes some faces particularly beautiful? One of the more influential hypotheses about women’s facial beauty is that attractive facial characteristics signal that a woman is not susceptible to ...

It turns out that our appreciation for beauty might begin earlier than we thought, much earlier! A study by Slater et al. (2000) reveals that newborn infants, just days old, exhibit a preference for ...

When we look at others, we’re not necessarily doing so to identify their most attractive feature. But, often, our subconscious has other plans. When you look at a person, you’re actually assessing ...

A new study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General provides a more nuanced understanding of how people’s cultural background and sexual orientation jointly shape their ...

A viral TikTok by a Cornell psychology PhD student has rekindled interest in a 2006 psychological study that made correlation between people's personality preference in a partner and what they find ...

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What actually matters when our attractiveness is rated? According to new eye-tracking research, we now have a definitive answer. Intuition might tell you that attraction is a quick, instinctive ...

When someone tells us we’re more attractive than we think, we usually brush it off as an obligatory remark. Here’s three research-backed points that actually prove it. The way we talk about beauty ...