title: Analyses of facial attractiveness on feminised and juvenilised faces.
abstract: We conducted two experiments to investigate the psychological factors affecting the attractiveness of composite faces. Feminised or juvenilised Japanese faces were created by morphing between average male and female adult faces or between average male (female) adult and boy (girl) faces. In experiment 1, we asked the participants to rank the attractiveness of these faces. The results showed moderately juvenilised faces to be highly attractive. In experiment 2, we analysed the impressions the participants had of the composite faces by the semantic-differential method and determined the factors that largely affected attractiveness. On the basis of the factor scores, we plotted the faces in factor spaces and analysed the locations of attractive faces. We found that most of the attractive juvenilised faces involved impressions corresponding to an augmentation of femininity, characterised by the factors of 'elegance', 'mildness', and 'youthfulness', which the attractive faces potentially had.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University, Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8576, Japan. ishi@sal.tohoku.ac.jp
authors.forename: Hanae
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ishi
authors.forename: Gyoba
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jiro
authors.forename: Miyuki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kamachi
authors.forename: Shigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mukaida
authors.forename: Shigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Akamatsu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001504:Beauty; D002648:Child; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012737:Sex Factors