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True or false: In a study on physical attractiveness, researchers found that participants rated individual faces as more attractive than faces that were created by averaging up to 32 other faces.

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The above statement is false because when Langlois and Roggman (1990) revealed to some college students the facial appearance of men and women, the faces were made up of averages of 2, 4, 8, 16 or 32 faces. It was discovered by the reseachers that the more the faces were averaged, the more attractive it is judged to be. This then reveals that the attractiveness wasn't rated based on individual faces but rather on averaging of the faces.

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