The Average Composite Face Is More Attractive

The average composite face is more attractive than any individual face that contributed to it. Beauty pervades a lot of our lives, and it influences how we make decisions. And with beauty, as I mentioned in my talk, faces often are a prototypic example of beauty. It can be people's bodies, it can be places,. It can be artifacts, people in regard. We've done a variety of studies looking at neural responses to beauty.