中文摘要：

面孔吸引力是传递社会情感性信息的重要来源。面孔的平均化、对称性、性别二态性特征等因素会影响对面孔吸引力的评价。近年来，研究者对面孔吸引力的研究已拓展到动态面孔上，并采用fMRI技术发现当让被试评价有吸引力的面孔时，杏仁核、眶额叶、腹侧枕叶等脑区被激活。研究者从进化论取向与认知取向两方面来解释人们为何偏好有吸引力的面孔。以往研究在研究内容、研究材料和研究对象等方面尚存不足，这正是今后的研究方向。

英文摘要：

Facial attractiveness is important in delivering social affective information. The judgment of facial attractiveness can be influenced by factors such as facial averageness, symmetry, sexual dimorphic feature. In recent years, research of facial attractiveness have been expanded to the dynamic faces. And by adopting functional MRI （fMRI） researchers have discovered that the amygdale, the orbit frontal cortex, the ventral occipital region and other brain regions were activated when subjects are asked to rate the attractive faces. Researchers have explained why attractive faces are preferred from evolutional and cognitive view. Several limitations existed in the previous research＇s content, material and subjects, which exactly the direction of future research.