Physical attractiveness is a measure of an individual's power to attract, arouse interest, or instill pleasure. The term may also apply to a group, race, or type of people. Traits may range from being deemed as extremely repulsive to those that are extremely attractive. Common scientific quantifiers used to measure "physical attractiveness" are averageness, symmetry, and youthfulness (in women), as well as others, such as complexion, skin tone, vigor, etc. Physical attractiveness has a close relationship to beauty.
Physical attractiveness can have a significant effect on how people are judged, in terms of employment or social opportunities, friendship, sexual behavior, and marriage. In many cases humans attribute positive characteristics, such as intelligence and honesty, to attractive people without consciously realizing it.
Looking good is a universal human preoccupation. We acknowledge that our perception of beauty in people is culturally derived when we say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder.' Ornamentation seems to matter in the animal kingdom where it is usually the male who is colorful; a biological fact especially evident in birds. Decoration and body shape matters in many human societies; tattooing, body piercing, and dental mutilation has both a long history and a world wide distribution. Every culture--at every time in history--is/has been preoccupied with good looks.
What is symmetry?
1. It is beauty of form arising from balance of proportions.
2. To be symmetrical means being correspondence in size, shape and relative positions of the body parts.
Symmetry especially facial symmetry is one of a number of traits, including averageness and youthfulness, associated with health, physical attractiveness and beauty of a person or animal.
Facial asymmetries and minor physical anomalies begin to appear early in embryonic development, mainly the first trimester of pregnancy, and can be a sign of instability during this growth.
Facial symmetry is neither the only trait nor is it necessarily the most important trait of what a culture considers attractive
Other areas of Symmetry
• The similarity of one or more facial features, particularly the eyes, eyebrows, nose and mouth
• The similarity in facial proportions, usually involving the features and the distance between them
• An attraction to another person based on them having similar features to someone with whom they formed a strong interpersonal bond with at an early age, usually a mother or father.
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