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In Your Face
The new science of human attraction
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In Your Face
The new science of human attraction
- Textbook
Description
In our daily lives, in our memories and fantasies, our mental worlds overflow with faces. But what do we really know about this most remarkable feature of the human body? Why do we have faces at all, and brains that are good at reading them? What do our looks say – and not say – about our personalities?
And perhaps the most compelling question of all: 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 pre-eminent scholar in the field, reveals and interprets the most remarkable findings and in the process demolishes many popular myths, setting the record straight on what neuroscience and evolutionary psychology are teaching us about beauty. The record is more surprising and often more unsettling than you might think.
Table of Contents
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 we are 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.
Product details
| Published | 16 Sep 2017 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 272 |
| ISBN | 9780230364844 |
| Imprint | Red Globe Press |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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