Diversifying recommendations has shown to be a good means to counteract on choice difficulties and overload, and is able to positively influence subjective evaluations, such as satisfaction and attractiveness. Personal characteristics (e.g., domain expertise, prior preference strength) have shown to influence the desired level of diversity in a recommendation list. However, only personal charac...

Although experimental tests have not tended to support the matching hypothesis, correlational studies have consistently found positive intracouple attractiveness correlations among actual couples. The present investigation sought to reconcile the findings of experimental and correlational studies by probing the relation between individual choices and systemwide patterns of couple formation. Thi...

a r t i c l e i n f o Faces capture cognitive resources, and more attractive faces capture more resources. But to be of adaptive value this proportionality should be modulated by properties of the perceiver, including their own level of attractiveness. Here we investigated the allocation of central processing resources for perceivers at different levels of mating market value (high, low) in res...

Nonverbal behaviour influences to a significant extent our perception of others, especially during the earliest stages of an interaction. This article considers the phenomenon in two zero acquaintance scenarios: the first is the attribution of personality traits to speakers we listen to for the first time, the second is the social attractiveness of unacquainted people with whom we talk on the p...

objectives: this study aimed to find the factors that affect dental esthetics and smile attractiveness in orthodontically treated patients according to laypeople’s judgment, and to determine whether there is any relationship between dental and smile esthetics. materials and methods: using the q-sort technique, 60 laypersons (30 males, 30 females) rated dental and smile photographs of 48 orthodo...