In Your Face: The New Science of Human Attraction

D. Perrett

ISBN 10: 0230201296 / ISBN 13: 9780230201293

Published by Macmillan Education UK, 2010

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What makes a face attractive? Why are we attracted to certain faces and not others? In this highly readable account from the frontiers of psychology, the author explains how the human face evolved and how our perceptions of the face affect our judgments of others' personality, health, trustworthiness, and suitability as a friend or lover. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMRP; PDZ; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 166 x 24. Weight in Grams: 664. . 2010. Hardcover. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In Your Face: The New Science of Human Attraction
• Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230201296
• ISBN 13: 9780230201293
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In our daily lives, in our memories and fantasies, our mental worlds overflow with faces. But what do we really know about this most remarkable feature of the human body? Why do we have faces at all, and brains that are good at reading them? What do our looks say – and not say – about our personalities?

And perhaps the most compelling question of all: 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 pre-eminent 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.

About the Author

DAVID PERRETT is Professor of Psychology at the University of St Andrews, UK 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 and pioneered 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 Image and Brain Mechanisms for Perception and Memory: From Neuron to Behaviour.
DAVID PERRETT is Professor of Psychology at the University of St Andrews, UK 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 and pioneered 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 Image and Brain Mechanisms for Perception and Memory: From Neuron to Behaviour.