School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas.
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany.
Psychol Sci. 2018 Dec;29(12):1969-1983. doi: 10.1177/0956797618799300. Epub 2018 Oct 22.
People infer the personalities of others from their facial appearance. Whether they do so from body shapes is less studied. We explored personality inferences made from body shapes. Participants rated personality traits for male and female bodies generated with a three-dimensional body model. Multivariate spaces created from these ratings indicated that people evaluate bodies on valence and agency in ways that directly contrast positive and negative traits from the Big Five domains. Body-trait stereotypes based on the trait ratings revealed a myriad of diverse body shapes that typify individual traits. Personality-trait profiles were predicted reliably from a subset of the body-shape features used to specify the three-dimensional bodies. Body features related to extraversion and conscientiousness were predicted with the highest consensus, followed by openness traits. This study provides the first comprehensive look at the range, diversity, and reliability of personality inferences that people make from body shapes.
人们从他人的面部特征推断其性格。而从体型推断性格的研究则相对较少。我们探索了从体型推断性格的方法。参与者使用三维人体模型对男性和女性的体型进行了性格特征评价。这些评价所创建的多元空间表明，人们以与大五人格领域的积极和消极特征直接对比的方式，从体型的维度评价人的性格。基于这些性格评价的体型刻板印象揭示了无数种典型的个体特征的不同体型。从用于指定三维身体的体型特征中选择一部分，就能可靠地预测出性格特征。与外向和尽责等性格特征相关的身体特征预测得到了最高的共识，其次是开放性特征。这项研究首次全面地了解了人们从体型推断性格的范围、多样性和可靠性。
