Slater Alan, Bremner Gavin, Johnson Scott P, Sherwood Penny, Hayes Rachel, Brown Elizabeth
School of Psychology University of Exeter.
Department of Psychology University of Lancaster.
Infancy. 2000 Apr;1(2):265-274. doi: 10.1207/S15327078IN0102_8. Epub 2000 Apr 1.
Several previous experiments have found that newborn and young infants will spend more time looking at attractive faces when these are shown paired with faces judged by adults to be unattractive. Two experimental conditions are described with the aim of finding whether the "attractiveness effect" results from attention to internal or external facial features, or both. Pairs of attractive and less attractive faces (as judged by adults) were shown to newborn infants (mean age 2 days, 9 hours), where each pair had either identical internal features (and different external features) or identical external features (and different internal features). In the latter, but not the former, condition the infants looked longer at the attractive faces. These findings are clear evidence that newborn infants use information about internal facial features in making preferences based on attractiveness. It is suggested that when newborn (and older) infants are presented with facial stimuli, whether dynamic or static, they are able to attend both to internal and external facial features.
先前的几项实验发现，当向新生儿和幼儿展示有吸引力的面孔与成年人判断为没有吸引力的面孔配对时，他们会花更多时间注视有吸引力的面孔。本文描述了两种实验条件，旨在探究“吸引力效应”是源于对内部还是外部面部特征的关注，抑或是两者皆有。将有吸引力和吸引力稍逊的面孔（由成年人判断）成对展示给新生儿（平均年龄为2天9小时），每对面孔要么具有相同的内部特征（外部特征不同），要么具有相同的外部特征（内部特征不同）。在后者而非前者的条件下，婴儿注视有吸引力面孔的时间更长。这些发现明确证明，新生儿在基于吸引力做出偏好时会利用有关内部面部特征的信息。研究表明，当向新生儿（及年龄稍大的婴儿）呈现面部刺激时，无论刺激是动态还是静态的，他们都能够同时关注内部和外部面部特征。
