In Your Face : The New Science of Human Attraction

In our daily lives, in our memories and fantasies, our mental worlds overflow with faces. But why do we have faces at all, and brains that are good at reading them? And 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 preeminent 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.

David Perrett is Professor of Psychology at the University of St Andrews and currently holds a British Academy Wolfson Research Professorship to work on the perception of health in faces. He received the "Golden Brain" award for his discoveries about the way the brain processes faces andpioneered the use of computer graphics to study the perception of facial attributes such as beauty, health and personality.He is the editor of Processing the Facial Imageand Brain Mechanisms for Perception and Memory: From Neuron to Behaviour.