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At the end, we can conclude that most of our findings are in
favour of the evolutionary assumptions. The presence of
differences among participants in their preference of faces shows
us that people don’t generally have an identical idea of an
attractive person. Our results show that not only the desired
personality (Little et al, 2006b) influences the perception of the
attractiveness of a person of the opposite sex, rather, people are
in their attractiveness evaluations influenced by their own
characteristics (in this case extraversion and verbal intelligence).
We cautiously conclude that the characteristics of participants
can play a role in assessing the attractiveness of the face.
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