Batres Carlota, Kannan Mallini, Perrett David I
School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9JP, UK.
Hum Nat. 2017 Sep;28(3):344-354. doi: 10.1007/s12110-017-9289-8.
Previous studies have found that individuals from rural areas in Malaysia and in El Salvador prefer heavier women than individuals from urban areas. Several explanations have been proposed to explain these differences in weight preferences but no study has explored familiarity as a possible explanation. We therefore sought to investigate participants' face preferences while also examining the facial characteristics of the actual participants. Our results showed that participants from rural areas preferred heavier-looking female faces than participants from urban areas. We also found that the female faces from the rural areas were rated as looking heavier than the female faces from the urban areas. Our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that familiarity may be contributing to the differences found in face preferences between rural and urban areas given that people from rural and urban areas are exposed to different faces.
先前的研究发现，马来西亚和萨尔瓦多农村地区的人比城市地区的人更喜欢体重较重的女性。人们提出了几种解释来阐释这些体重偏好差异，但尚无研究探讨熟悉度是否可能是一种解释。因此，我们试图调查参与者对面部的偏好，同时也研究实际参与者的面部特征。我们的研究结果表明，农村地区的参与者比城市地区的参与者更喜欢看起来体重较重的女性面孔。我们还发现，农村地区的女性面孔被评为比城市地区的女性面孔看起来更重。鉴于农村和城市地区的人们接触到不同的面孔，我们的研究结果与以下假设一致，即熟悉度可能导致了农村和城市地区在面部偏好上的差异。
