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Controlling for facial attractiveness and other potential confounds, the correlation between FAI and partner count was still significant (partial r = -.47). | Controlling for facial attractiveness and other potential confounds, the correlation between FAI and partner count was still significant (partial r = -.47). | ||
Rhodes G (2006), conducting a meta-analysis on the relationship between facial attractiveness and symmetry, found strong evidence of a general trend towards symmetry being correlated with facial attractiveness, and this relationship was not fully explained by symmetrical faces being more "average" (i.e. a face that has proportions close to the mathematical average of a population, which is also associated with attractiveness, not a 50th percentile attractiveness or "average looking" face). | Rhodes G (2006), conducting a meta-analysis on the relationship between facial attractiveness and symmetry, found strong evidence of a general trend towards symmetry being correlated with facial attractiveness, and this relationship was not fully explained by symmetrical faces being more "average" (i.e. a face that has proportions close to the mathematical average of a population, which is also associated with attractiveness, not a 50th percentile attractiveness or "average looking" face). | ||
Quite plausibly facial symmetry is under aesthetical selection, i.e. people mainly choose symmetric partners because they are [[beauty|objectively good looking]]. | |||
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