School of Psychology, University of Lincoln, Lincoln LN6 7TS, UK.
School of Psychology, University of Lincoln, Lincoln LN6 7TS, UK.
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2021 Jul;218:103338. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103338. Epub 2021 May 21.
Research has indicated that female body perception and associated body-viewing gaze behaviour in women viewers can be influenced by a variety of internal and external factors (e.g., own body satisfaction, clothing style, and viewing angle). Although the clothing colour affects women's visual and aesthetic appearance rated by men or women wearer themselves, its impact on women judging other women's body attractiveness and body size is largely unclear. In this eye-tracking study we presented female body images of Caucasian and African avatars in a continuum of common dress sizes wearing different colours (black, grey, white, red, green and blue), and asked 31 young Caucasian women to rate the perceived body attractiveness and body size. Our analysis revealed that clothing colour black and red attracted the highest body attractiveness and slimmer body size ratings, whereas green and grey induced the lowest body attractiveness and overestimated body size judgements. Such colour-induced modulatory effect on body perception was further influenced by the avatar race (or skin tone; e.g., higher attractiveness ratings for colours white, blue and green in African than in Caucasian avatars), and was associated with the changes of body-viewing gaze allocation at the upper body and waist-hip regions (i.e. colour black and white attracting more viewing at the upper body and waist-hip regions, respectively). Taken together, it seems that the clothing colour and its contrast with skin tone play valuable roles in mediating women's body perception of other women.
研究表明,女性的身体感知以及女性观察者的相关注视行为会受到多种内部和外部因素的影响(例如,自身身体满意度、服装风格和观察角度)。虽然服装颜色会影响男性或女性穿着者自身对视觉和美学外观的评价,但它对女性判断其他女性身体吸引力和体型的影响在很大程度上尚不清楚。在这项眼动追踪研究中,我们呈现了具有不同颜色(黑色、灰色、白色、红色、绿色和蓝色)的常见服装尺寸的白种人和非洲裔化身的女性身体图像,并要求 31 名年轻的白种女性对感知到的身体吸引力和体型进行评价。我们的分析表明,黑色和红色的服装颜色吸引了最高的身体吸引力和更苗条的体型评价,而绿色和灰色则产生了最低的身体吸引力和高估的体型判断。这种由颜色引起的对身体感知的调节效应进一步受到化身种族(或肤色的影响;例如,在非洲裔化身中,白色、蓝色和绿色的颜色吸引力评价高于白种人化身),并且与上半身和腰臀区域的身体注视分配的变化有关(即黑色和白色分别吸引更多对上半身和腰臀区域的注视)。总的来说,似乎服装颜色及其与肤色的对比在调节女性对其他女性的身体感知方面起着重要作用。