Facial Symmetry and How it Relates to Perceived Intelligence Facial symmetry.

What usually indicates beauty for people, could it also help indicate how intelligent people are, or rather how intelligent people are perceived. This study of facial symmetry is related to perception Aim: To investigate how Bentonville High School students perceive people s intelligence by means of facial symmetry Research Hypothesis: The more symmetrical the face of a person is, the higher intelligence perceived by the students (or observers). Null Hypothesis: Facial symmetry will have no effect on how people perceive intelligence. Literature Bernhard Fink, Nick Neave, John T. Manning, Karl Grammer (2006) wanted to prove the correlation between facial symmetry and health, beauty, and positive personality traits. The

psychologists selected 20 Caucasian females (ages 18-25). Subjects asked to rate people on a 7 point Likert scale (1-worst 7-best). The independent variable was facial symmetry of the girls in the photos. Their findings agreed with their hypothesis. hypothesis. This experiment is relevant because it supports my

Fahim Noor and David C. Evans (2003) wanted to prove facial symmetry correlates with health, attractiveness, and being personable. The psychology took 16 girls of different races and ages.

Psychologists took the pictures of the 16 girls and showed them to 121 people and asked them to rate them. The photos were created by taking the left side of the girls faces and copying them onto the right. This is important because it supports my hypothesis. Lisa DeBruine (2001) wanted to prove how facial symmetry correlates to perceived beauty. She took a male and a female, took a picture of them and enhanced the participants imperfections and took a picture and made it symmetrical by computer graphic capabilities. She left the two pictures up and asked people walking by to tell which one was more attractive. Her finding were that the more symmetrical face was found to be more attractive to people. This experiment is important because it is the experiment I am going to modify.