The relationship between bilateral facial symmetry and beauty remains to be clarified. Here, straight head-on photographs of "beautiful" faces from the collections of professional modeling agencies were selected. First, beauty ratings were obtained for these faces. Then, the authors created symmetrical left-left and right-right composites of the beautiful faces and asked a new group of subjects...

OBJECTIVE Cognitive theories suggest that body dissatisfaction results from the activation of maladaptive appearance schemata, which guide mental processes such as selective attention to shape and weight-related information. In line with this, the present study hypothesized that patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) are characterized by increased visual attention for the ...

This special issue is focused on the role of fibroblasts in cardiac biology. Fibroblasts are the most numerous cells in the heart, and although their role in promoting fibrosis in the diseased heart has been recognized for more than 50 years, it is only more recently that their active involvement in both normal cardiovascular biology and many other aspects of cardiac pathophysiology besides fib...

BACKGROUND Route environments may influence people's active commuting positively and thereby contribute to public health. Assessments of route environments are, however, needed in order to better understand the possible relationship between active commuting and the route environment. The aim of this study was, therefore, to assess the potential associations between perceptions of whether the ro...

The nature of beauty has been debated in philosophy for thousands of years. Recently, cognitive neuroscientists have sought to elucidate this issue by exploring the neural basis for the experience of beauty. However, the neural representations of beauty remain poorly understood, especially regarding whether various forms of beauty, such as the beauty of faces and the beauty of art, share a comm...