Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada.
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada.
J Exp Child Psychol. 2014 Apr;120:1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2013.10.006. Epub 2013 Dec 8.
We examined how recent biased face experience affects the influence of averageness on judgments of facial attractiveness among 8- and 9-year-old children attending a girls' school, a boys' school, and a mixed-sex school. We presented pairs of individual faces in which one face was transformed 50% toward its group average, whereas the other face was transformed 50% away from that average. Across blocks, the faces varied in age (adult, 9-year-old, or 5-year-old) and sex (male or female). We expected that averageness might influence attractiveness judgments more strongly for same-age faces and, for children attending single-sex schools, same-sex faces of that age because their prototype(s) should be best tuned to the faces they see most frequently. Averageness influenced children's judgments of attractiveness, but the strength of the influence was not modulated by the age of the face, nor did the effects of sex of face differ across schools. Recent biased experience might not have affected the results because of similarities between the average faces of different ages and sexes and/or because a minimum level of experience with a particular group of faces may be adequate for the formation of a veridical prototype and its influence on judgments of attractiveness. The results suggest that averageness affects children's judgments of the attractiveness of the faces they encounter in everyday life regardless of age or sex of face.
我们研究了近期有偏差的面部体验如何影响平均水平对面部吸引力判断的影响，这些儿童来自一所女子学校、一所男子学校和一所男女混合学校，年龄在 8 到 9 岁之间。我们呈现了成对的个体面部，其中一张脸被转变成其群体平均值的 50%，而另一张脸则被转变成该平均值的 50%。在不同的组块中，面孔的年龄（成年、9 岁或 5 岁）和性别（男性或女性）都有所不同。我们预计，对于同年龄的面孔，平均水平可能会更强烈地影响吸引力判断，而对于就读于单性别学校的儿童，同年龄的同性别面孔也会如此，因为他们的原型应该最适合他们最常看到的面孔。平均水平影响了儿童对吸引力的判断，但这种影响的强度不受面孔年龄的调节，也不受性别差异的影响。最近的有偏差的体验可能不会影响结果，因为不同年龄和性别的平均面孔之间存在相似性，或者因为对特定群体的面孔有一个最低水平的经验可能足以形成一个真实的原型及其对面部吸引力判断的影响。研究结果表明，无论年龄或性别如何，平均水平都会影响儿童对面部吸引力的判断，这些面部是他们在日常生活中遇到的。
