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facial symmetry, averageness and above-average secondary/dimorphic sexual characteristics have been proposed to indicate hormonal and health markers for relational attraction. These traits are considered universal evolutionary important biological markers. Therefore, the hypothesis that attractiveness is processed unconsciously – i.e., subliminally – has been proposed and supported by the vast majority of topical research. […]
In this manuscript, […] we dispute subliminality […]
We demonstrate that attraction in response to human faces involves both conscious and unconscious elements […]
The experience of attractiveness was reported to precede the conscious awareness of attractiveness during overt presentations, but our current findings suggested that it recruited, influenced and was influenced by conscious perception and evaluation. […]
Previous research has made strong and repeated claims as to that attractiveness is
processed subliminally […] In this study, we presented strong evidence that this is not correct, and that the experience, evaluation and perception of attractiveness involves conscious awareness and unconscious, automatic and involuntary processes.
