The relationship between facial attractiveness and smile: What do humans perceive from faces？

• Takahashi Midori

  The University of Tokyo

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 笑顔と魅力の関係性——ヒトは顔から何を読み取っているか——

Abstract

In this paper, the author reviewed recent studies about social impressions from faces and the effect of positive expression (smile) on facial attractiveness. It is appeared that smile generally contributes to positive evaluation of facial attractiveness (in 31 studies, the majorities of 23 studies reported positive effect of smile on facial attractiveness, 8 studies reported smiles don’t have any effect on facial attractiveness). However, it is suggested that smile is not the requirement (basic/fundamental component) of facial attractiveness. Second, the author introduced recent theories about interpersonal attractiveness and discussed the similarities between recent model of facial impressions (Oosterhof & Todorov, 2008; Sutherland et al., 2013) and the fundamental model of interpersonal attractiveness, that is, the importance of the ideas of instrumentality toward perceiver’s goals/motivational states (Finkel & Eastwick, 2015). Based on this theoretical discussion, the author proposed that it is necessary for researchers of facial attractiveness to take into consideration about the interaction of these three components: perceiver’s motivational state, facial features and the information of social intentions (emotion expressions and gaze directions).

Journal

• Emotion Studies

  Emotion Studies 6 (1), 28-36, 2021-03-10

  Japan Society for Research on Emotions

Keywords

• facial attractiveness
• emotion expression
• review
• evolutionary approach
• interpersonal impression

Details

• CRID: 1390568838439406976
• NII Article ID: 130007997676
• DOI: 10.20797/ems.6.1_28
• ISSN: 21897425
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
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  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
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