Attractiveness bias: A cognitive explanation. (2017)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Attractiveness bias: A cognitive explanation. (2017)
- Main Title:
- Attractiveness bias: A cognitive explanation
- Authors:
- Schein, Stevie S.
Trujillo, Logan T.
Langlois, Judith H. - Abstract:
- Abstract: According to cognitive averaging theory, preferences for attractive faces result from their similarity to facial prototypes, the categorical central tendencies of a population of faces. Prototypical faces are processed more fluently, resulting in increased positive affect in the viewer.
- Is Part Of:
- Behavioral and brain sciences. Volume 40(2017)
- Journal:
- Behavioral and brain sciences
- Issue:
- Volume 40(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 40, Issue 2017 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 40
- Issue:
- 2017
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0040-2017-0000
- Page Start:
- Page End:
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Subjects:
- Psychophysiology -- Periodicals
Psychology -- Periodicals
Human behavior -- Periodicals
Animal behavior -- Periodicals
Brain -- Periodicals
616.89142 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.journals.cup.org/jid%5FBBS ↗
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S0140525X16000649 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0140-525X
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