If you thought blurry eyes were to blame for the “beer goggles” phenomenon, think again. Scientists from the University of Portsmouth have tested the popular theory that people are more likely to find ...

A slew of filters on social media allow users to evaluate their features, reigniting age-old obsessions with perfection and beauty. Credit...Miki Kim Supported by By Rhonda Garelick Rhonda Garelick is ...

In a recent study published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, researchers examined the impact of real-world alcoholism on judgments of facial attractivity and symmetry across a single set of face ...

How do we measure beauty? The poets and romantics might argue that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but this doesn’t explain why so many actors, models, and stars are universally accepted as ...