Our mothers told us that true beauty is more than skin deep — but researchers are now challenging Mom. They’ve built a beauty machine that, with the press of a button, turns a picture of your own ordinary face into that of a cover model.

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Our notions of beauty are socially constructed. Is the internet helping to broaden our sense of beauty, or reinforcing Eurocentric standards?

You are scientifically beautiful, 9-10/10. Your modelling career awaits, my dear.

Scientists experiment with thousands of faces from all over the world to tell us what the average looking woman in India looks like!

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The website faceresearch.org allows you to participate in short online psychology experiments looking at the traits people find attractive in faces and voices. They just released a fascinating study which aligns many pictures of individuals from every country and created composite images of what the average face would look like. It’s a complicated process that isn’t 100% […]

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