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Face Of The Day

By The Daily Dish
Dec 10 2008, 11:38 AM ET

TwoFaces

From a series on facial illusions:

The Illusion of Sex, by Harvard psychologist Richard Russell, won Third Prize at the 2009 Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest. The two side-by-side faces are perceived as male (right) and female (left). However, both of them are versions of the same androgynous face. The two images are exactly identical, except that the contrast between the eyes and mouth and the rest of the face is higher for the face on the left than for the face on the right.

Nine more here. So who turns you on, the man or the woman? And how much rests on that difference?



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