Essay On Composite Face

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Background Research/Literature Review Paige Lampman, Timothy Berridge, Emily Huber A composite face is a face made up of multiple real faces layered together to make a new face, the composite face, that is symmetrical. The symmetricality of a composite face adds appeal and attractiveness to a person’s face. It is basically an average of all of the faces layered, it blurs out the abnormalities and asymmetries into being a much more symmetrical and average face. In order to make a composite face, you must overlap slightly opaque pictures which will layer on top of one another to basically average out the image. This can be done on faceresearch.org (Science Buddies), but you must follow their informed consent guidelines if you wish to do so. It can also be completed on multiple software applications on a Mac computer such as, Photoshop or Illustrator. The difference between a composite face and a real face is that a real face is one …show more content…

An average face encompasses characteristics that you would see most often, and if you see an average face you would classify it as attractive because it is easier for your brain to process, as you have already seen a similar image multiple times before. If you were to see a strange face with multiple abnormalities, you would probably classify it as ugly, because it took a while for your brain to process this new information and you have never seen those characteristics before (Liz Savage). There is a theory being researched by two researchers, Piotr Winkielman and Jamin Halberstadt, which states that we find average faces more attractive because they look more like a face to us. They represent what we are shown as a regular and average face which we then find attractive because there is nothing out of the ordinary about it and we can justify it in our own minds as a normal face and that we are comfortable with

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