Backstage of the research on perception of human facial attractiveness in the context of aging - the decision making strategy, considerations and observations

Vol.5,No.2(2014)

Abstract
The article seeks to capture the background of a research focused on the attractiveness of the human face in the context of aging. Starting with a description of the decision making process about what methodological way to proceed; through effective strategies during volunteers recruiting for facial photos making; detection of the problem in establishing a neutral facial expression in older age and the sampling of respondents construction, the author gets to describe the course of the actual investigation. The aim of this contribution is not to introduce the reader to quantitatively tuned results arising from the statistical types of analyzes. The aim is to introduce them to the "way", after which the author within the research decided to go, to show the reasons for doing so and outline how the initial barrier on the way to transform to the "building material",  from which it is eventually built.

Keywords:
human face; attractiveness; sympathy; aging; neutral facial expression
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