Kou Hui, Xie Qinhong, Bi Taiyong
Center for Mental Health Research in School of Management, Zunyi Medical University, Guizhou, China.
School of Criminal Justice, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China.
Front Psychol. 2020 Mar 11;11:436. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00436. eCollection 2020.
Research on the cognitive processing of facial attractiveness has mainly focused on adult faces. Recent studies have revealed that the cognitive processing of facial attractiveness in infant faces is not the same as that in adult faces. Therefore, it is necessary to summarize the evidence on the processing of facial attractiveness in each kind of face and compare their underlying mechanisms. In this paper, we first reviewed studies on the cognitive processing of facial attractiveness in adult faces, including attentional and mnemonic processing, and then discussed the underlying mechanisms. Afterward, studies on facial attractiveness in infant faces were reviewed, and the underlying mechanisms were also discussed. Direct comparisons between the two kinds of cognitive processing were subsequently made. The results showed that the mechanisms for the processing of attractiveness in adult faces and infant faces are mainly motivated by the perspectives of mate selection and raising offspring, respectively, in evolutionary psychology. Finally, directions for future research are proposed.
关于面部吸引力的认知加工研究主要集中在成人面部。最近的研究表明，婴儿面部吸引力的认知加工与成人面部不同。因此，有必要总结各类面部吸引力加工的证据，并比较其潜在机制。在本文中，我们首先回顾了关于成人面部吸引力认知加工的研究，包括注意力和记忆加工，然后讨论了潜在机制。之后，回顾了关于婴儿面部吸引力的研究，并讨论了潜在机制。随后对这两种认知加工进行了直接比较。结果表明，从进化心理学角度来看，成人面部和婴儿面部吸引力加工的机制分别主要受择偶和养育后代观点的驱动。最后，提出了未来研究的方向。
