Turns out, whether an jawline is 'attractive' hinges on the angle it meets the face at (what's known as the gonial angle). A strong, chiselled jawline is considered by some to be a marker of ...

Abnormalities of craniofacial anatomy such as cleft palate, dorsally rotated tongue, increased tongue volume, dorsocaudal location of the hyoid bone, obtuse gonial angle with retruded mandible and ...

The characteristics considered most attractive were a gonial angle in profile of 125.5° and an anterior view of 142°. Meanwhile, the gonial angle in profile was higher at 129.1° for those considered ...