TEACHSOC: Re: Beauty Standards question

[Roberts, Keith]

From: teachsoc@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of D. Angus Vail Hi, folks.  I'm hoping someone can give me a citation for a famous study on beauty standards.  It was a psychological social psych experiment that involved showing people pairs of pictures and asking them to rank them in terms of beauty.  The study found that there are certain facial characteristics (fullness of lips, size of eyes, lightness of skin, and so on) the defined beauty and that those standards transcended race, class, culture, and so on.  Does anyone have a citation handy?   I don’t have time to check it right now, but I THINK that was reported in Mirror, Mirror: The Importance of Looks in Everyday Life by Elaine Hatfield and Susan Sprecher (State Univ of N.Y. Press, 1986)   Keith       *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *      Keith A. Roberts, Ph.D.     Dept of Sociology & Anthropology     Hanover College     Hanover, IN  47243       [EMAIL PROTECTED]     Office: 812/ 866-7353