Elizabeth Rutherford Memorial Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion, School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia, Australia.
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Muenster, Germany.
Behav Res Ther. 2021 Sep;144:103919. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2021.103919. Epub 2021 Jun 23.
The current study tested the novel hypothesis that elevated facial appearance concern reflects a heightened tendency to judge facial appearance in terms of attractiveness, rather than in terms of attractiveness-irrelevant dimensions. Seventy-three females, reporting either high or low facial appearance concerns, were exposed to an individualised stimulus development protocol which involved a photoshoot and the subsequent selection of photographs perceived to be most and least attractive. Participants were then required to judge photographs in terms of either attractiveness or the eye gaze direction of the individual in the photograph. Results revealed that when judging attractiveness, low facial concern participants were faster to classify photographs as belonging to the attractive category rather than the unattractive category. We termed this potentially protective bias the General Attractiveness Recognition Advantage. Moreover, regardless of judgement required, high facial concern participants were faster to make responses to unattractive relative to attractive photographs of themselves. We termed this potential vulnerability bias the Efficient Processing of Unattractive Self. Further analyses revealed that the former bias associated with broader body dysmorphic symptomatology. The current findings, although inconsistent with the hypothesis under test, were novel in revealing two distinct mechanisms which distinguished high and low facial appearance concern individuals.
当前的研究检验了一个新颖的假设，即升高的面部外观关注反映了一种更高的倾向，即用吸引力的维度而不是与吸引力无关的维度来判断面部外观。73 名女性报告了高或低的面部外观关注，她们接受了一个个性化的刺激发展协议，该协议涉及拍摄照片和随后选择被认为最有吸引力和最没有吸引力的照片。然后，参与者被要求根据吸引力或照片中个体的目光方向来判断照片。结果表明，当判断吸引力时，低面部关注的参与者更快地将照片分类为属于有吸引力的类别，而不是无吸引力的类别。我们将这种潜在的保护偏见称为一般吸引力识别优势。此外，无论需要进行哪种判断，高面部关注的参与者对自己的无吸引力照片的反应速度都快于对有吸引力的照片的反应速度。我们将这种潜在的脆弱性偏见称为对无吸引力自我的有效处理。进一步的分析表明，前者的偏见与更广泛的身体畸形症症状有关。尽管这些发现与所测试的假设不一致，但它们揭示了区分高和低面部外观关注个体的两种不同机制，这是新颖的。
