Ensemble statistics shape face adaptation and the cheerleader effect

• Main Authors: Ying, Haojiang, Burns, Edwin, Lin, Xinyi, Xu, Hong
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Facial Attractiveness; Cheerleader Effect
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145719
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

When confronted with a scene of emotional faces, our brains automatically average the individual facial expressions together to create the gist of the collective emotion. Here, we tested whether this ensemble averaging could also occur for facial attractiveness, and in turn shape 2 related face perc...