1 Also referred to as MAFA effect.

2 The seminal work on the most average facial appearance effect is “Attractive Faces are Only Average” by Judith H. Langlois and Lori A. Roggman, Psychological Science, 1990, vol. 1, p. 115–121.

3 See, for example, “Developmental Stability, Disease, and Medicine” by Randy Thornhill and Anders P. Møller, Biological Reviews, 1997, vol. 72, p. 497–548.

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