In Your Face

DAVID PERRETT is Professor of Psychology at the University of St Andrews, UK and currently holds a British Academy Wolfson Research Professorship to work on the perception of health in faces. He received the 'Golden Brain' award for his discoveries about the way the brain processes faces and pioneered the use of computer graphics to study the perception of facial attributes such as beauty, health and personality. He is the editor of Processing the Facial Image and Brain Mechanisms for Perception and Memory: From Neuron to Behaviour.

• IntroductionFish Face: A Brief Tour of the Face and its OriginsSeeing Faces: How we Recognize Faces and Why we Like ThemA Baby's Bias: How we are Attracted to Faces from BirthBeauty in Balance: The Proportions that Really are Universally AttractiveHis and Hers: How Sex Hormones Influence our Looks and our Attraction to OthersThe Point of Beauty: Why Facial Attractiveness Matters in the Long RunFit Face: How our Health is Reflected in our FacesWither the Face: On the Cuteness of Babies and the Effects of TimeFaces with Attitude: How the Personality we Seek in a Partner Guides our Face TastesAll in the Family: How Parents and Peers Shape our Attraction to FacesLove Potions: Transforming Attraction to LoveEpilogue.

'Let's face it. David Perrett has written a truly compelling book. Chock full of science, but reader-friendly and entertaining. Now I have a new perspective on my own crooked smile and have learned many other fascinating things related to faces. Highly recommended.' Professor Joseph LeDoux, author of The Emotional Brain and Synaptic Self. 'An engaging revelation of the biology and psychology behind facial beauty, but be warned: In Your Face may reveal some surprising truths about why we are attracted to others.' Bruce Hood, author of SuperSense and Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol. '[An] exuberant account from the frontiers of science.' - Human Givens