Marcinkowska Urszula M, Rantala Markus J
University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Evol Psychol. 2012 Sep 5;10(3):621-30. doi: 10.1177/147470491201000318.
Positive sexual imprinting is a process by which individuals use the phenotype of their opposite-sex parent as a template for acquiring mates. Recent studies in humans have concluded that an imprinting-like mechanism influences human mate choice in facial traits. However, some of the previous studies have had methodological problems or flaws which might have invalidated or led to an overgeneralization of the original interpretation of their results. In this study, 70 heterosexual adults were used to test if their partners resembled facially their opposite-sex parent as the sexual imprinting hypothesis predicts. Judges assessed the subjective facial similarity between each participant's partner and their parent. We found that there was no perceived facial similarity between women's partners and their fathers. However, men tended to pair more often with women that were perceived as resembling the men's own mothers. In contrast to previous studies, the quality of the relationship between participants and their parents did not predict the level of facial resemblance between the participant's spouse and their parent.
正向性印记是一个过程，个体以此过程将其异性父母的表型作为寻找配偶的模板。近期针对人类的研究得出结论，一种类似印记的机制会影响人类对面部特征的配偶选择。然而，之前的一些研究存在方法学问题或缺陷，这些问题可能致使其结果的原始解释无效或导致过度概括。在本研究中，70名异性恋成年人被用于测试他们的伴侣在面部特征上是否如性印记假说所预测的那样与其异性父母相似。评判者评估了每位参与者的伴侣与其父母之间的主观面部相似性。我们发现，女性的伴侣与其父亲之间不存在可察觉到的面部相似性。然而，男性倾向于更多地与被认为与自己母亲相似的女性配对。与之前的研究不同，参与者与其父母之间关系的质量并不能预测参与者配偶与其父母之间面部相似的程度。
