Attractiveness Is Multimodal: Beauty Is Also in the Nose and Ear of the Beholder
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F17%3A10363543" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/17:10363543 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00778" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00778</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00778" target="_blank" >10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00778</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Attractiveness Is Multimodal: Beauty Is Also in the Nose and Ear of the Beholder
Original language description
Attractiveness plays a central role in human non-verbal communication and has been broadly examined in diverse subfields of contemporary psychology. Researchers have garnered compelling evidence in support of the evolutionary functions of physical attractiveness and its role in our daily lives, while at the same time, having largely ignored the significant contribution of non-visual modalities and the relationships among them. Acoustic and olfactory cues can, separately or in combination, strongly influence the perceived attractiveness of an individual and therefore attitudes and actions toward that person. Here, we discuss the relative importance of visual, auditory and olfactory traits in judgments of attractiveness, and review neural and behavioral studies that support the highly complex and multimodal nature of person perception. Further, we discuss three alternative evolutionary hypotheses aimed at explaining the function of multiple indices of attractiveness. In this review, we provide several lines of evidence supporting the importance of the voice, body odor, and facial and body appearance in the perception of attractiveness and mate preferences, and therefore the critical need to incorporate cross-modal perception and multisensory integration into future research on human physical attractiveness.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10613 - Zoology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA15-05048S" target="_blank" >GA15-05048S: Forming first impressions from multiple modalities: a cross-cultural perspective</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Frontiers in Psychology
ISSN
1664-1078
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
8
Issue of the periodical within the volume
MAY
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
5
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
000401664700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85019650553