Title: Medial canthal tilt and attractiveness
Headings: Medial canthal tilt and attractiveness
Medial canthal tilt and attractiveness
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Content: Medial canthal tilt: the angle between a horizontal line passing through the lowest point of the medial canthus and a line bisecting the medial caruncle at its lateral end. Palpebral fissure inclination: the angle between a horizontal line passing through the lowest point of the medial canthus and a line bisecting the lateral canthus. The authors speculated that part of the reason why greater medial canthal tilt in women is preferred is that the palpebral fissure inclination is slightly greater in women than men and greater in children than in adults, and increased medial canthal tilt appears to suggest greater palpebral fissure inclination, i.e., an accentuation of femininity and neoteny. Whereas above average femininity is a powerful correlate of beauty in women, neoteny isn’t even though many researchers continue to point this out. Elsewhere within this site, it has been shown that neoteny, which is the retention in the adult of the features of the juvenile stages of the ancestral species, does not apply to the shape of the human face. The authors were trying to imply pedomorphy as a correlate of beauty but incorrectly used the term neoteny. Pedomorphy refers to the retention in the adult of more child-like features. Whereas it is true that the faces of women are closer to those of children, sexual maturity makes both males and females move away from the face shape of children, and the central tendency of adults is to prefer sexually mature individuals.