Title: Medial canthal tilt and attractiveness
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Medial canthal tilt and attractiveness
Submitted by Admin on Wed, 04/25/2007 - 00:36
The medial canthus is the inner corner of the eye, formed by the junction of the upper and lower eyelids. In the two images below, the image on top shows a picture of the eyes of a woman and the image below it shows the same picture with the medial canthus digitally tilted (using Adobe photoshop). Bashour and Geist investigated whether slightly increasing the tilt of the medial canthus increases attractiveness (1). The faces of 66 young women of European ancestry were photographed and 66 corresponding slides were prepared showing the unaltered face next to the same face where the medial canthal tilt was artificially increased. 50 male and 50 female judges were exposed to these slides and asked to pick the more appealing picture without being told what the purpose of the study was. Each slide was shown for 3 seconds. The data from 7 judges were excluded because one judge recognized a face, 3 judges figured out that the study was about eye alteration and 3 judges were not able to judge all the slides. Increased medial canthal tilt was preferred 93% of the time (p < 0.0001), with no difference between male and female judges. What explains this preference? Consider the following diagrams first, which show how medial canthal tilt and palpebral fissure inclination are measured, respectively.