Each section below addresses an important topic in attractiveness research.

Click on the topic name to see demonstrations of published attractiveness experiments and browse related materials. Click on the PDF icons to download slides or notes for each topic.

Topic	Slides	Notes
1: Introduction to attractiveness research
2: Why are symmetric faces attractive?
3: Are attractive faces only average?
4: Facial attractiveness and masculinity-femininity
5: Integrating social and physical cues when judging attractiveness
6: Summary

Download a list of questions to test your knowledge about face research

You can also browse demonstrations of the computer graphic methods used in face research.

This website is run by the Face Research Laboratory in the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Glasgow. The development of this web resource was supported by a grant from The Higher Education Academy Psychology Network.