In our daily lives, in our memories and fantasies, our mental worlds overflowwith faces. But why do we have faces at all, and brains that are good at reading them? And why are we attracted to some faces more than others? In Your Face is an engaging and authoritative tour of the science of facial beauty and face perception. David Perrett, the preeminent scholar in the field, reveals andinterprets the most remarkable findings and in the process demolishes many popular myths, setting the record straight on what neuroscience and evolutionarypsychology are teaching us about beauty. The record is more surprising and often more unsettling than you might think. INDICE: Introduction.Fish Face: A Brief Tour of the Face and its Origins.Seeing Faces: How we Recognize Faces and Why we Like Them.A Baby's Bias: How weare Attracted to Faces from Birth.Beauty in Balance: The Proportions that Really are Universally Attractive.His and Hers: How Sex Hormones Influence our Looks and our Attraction to Others.The Point of Beauty: Why Facial Attractiveness Matters in the Long Run.Fit Face: How our Health is Reflected in our Faces.Wither the Face: On the Cuteness of Babies and the Effects of Time.Faces with Attitude: How the Personality we Seek in a Partner Guides our Face Tastes.All in the Family: How Parents and Peers Shape our Attraction to Faces.Love Potions: Transforming Attraction to Love.Epilogue.
- ISBN: 978-0-230-34043-5
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha Publicación: 08/06/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido