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Is medial canthal tilt a powerful cue for facial attractiveness?
1University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. bashour@email.com
Purpose:
To identify medial canthal tilt as an important cue used by judges in evaluating human female facial attractiveness.
Methods:
An experimental study was conducted with the use of SuperLab Pro, and judges had to make a forced choice between unmodified faces and faces that had their medial canthal tilt accentuated through the use of Adobe Photoshop CS.
Results:
Female faces with accentuated medial canthal tilt were preferred 93% of the time over unmodified faces (p < 0.0001).
Conclusions:
Medial canthal tilt appears to be a powerful cue used in judging human female facial attractiveness. Its power may be due to its relation to the neotenic and sexually dimorphic cue of palpebral fissure inclination.
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