The influence of craniofacial to standing height proportion on perceived attractiveness

Abstract An idealised male image, based on Vitruvian Man , was created. The craniofacial height was altered from a proportion of 1/6 to 1/10 of standing height, creating 10 images shown in random order to 89 observers (74 lay people; 15 clinicians), who ranked the images from the most to the least a...

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Published in:International journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery 2008-10, Vol.37 (10), p.877-885
Main Authors: Naini, F.B, Cobourne, M.T, McDonald, F, Donaldson, A.N.A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
African Continental Ancestry Group
Age Factors
Anatomy, Artistic
Anthropometry
Asian Continental Ancestry Group
Attitude
Attitude of Health Personnel
attractiveness
Beauty
Biological and medical sciences
Body Height
Cephalometry
craniofacial height
Dentistry
Ethnic Groups
European Continental Ancestry Group
Face - anatomy & histology
Female
Health Personnel
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted - methods
Male
Medical sciences
Otorhinolaryngology. Stomatology
perception
Sex Factors
Surgery
vertical facial proportions
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Summary:Abstract An idealised male image, based on Vitruvian Man , was created. The craniofacial height was altered from a proportion of 1/6 to 1/10 of standing height, creating 10 images shown in random order to 89 observers (74 lay people; 15 clinicians), who ranked the images from the most to the least attractive. The main outcome was the preference ranks of image attractiveness given by the observers. Linear regressions were used to assess what influences the choice for the most and the least attractive images, followed by a multivariate rank ordinal logistic regression to test the influence of age, gender, ethnicity and professional status of the observer. A craniofacial height to standing height proportion of 1/7.5 was perceived as the most attractive (36%), followed by a proportion of 1/8 (26%). The images chosen as most attractive by more than 10% of observers had a mean proportion of 1/7.8 (min=1/7; max=1/8.5). The images perceived as most unattractive had a proportion of 1/6 and 1/10. The choice of images was not influenced by the age, gender, ethnicity or professional status of the observers. The ideal craniofacial height to standing height proportion is in the range 1/7 to 1/8.5. This finding should be considered when planning treatment to alter craniofacial or facial height.
ISSN:0901-5027
1399-0020
DOI:10.1016/j.ijom.2008.07.022