Dave Perrett and colleagues found that people prefer faces with characteristics that are similar to their parents. Although most people preferred faces with smooth complexions and other cues to youth (left face), people with parents who were older than average when they were born were more tolerant of faces with ‘lines and wrinkles’ (right face).
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| Face with smooth skin and other cues to youth | Textured face with lines and wrinkles |
- (2002). Facial attractiveness judgments reflect learning of parental age characteristics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B, 269: 873-880.