Butovskaya Marina L, Rostovstseva Victoria V, Mezentseva Anna A, Kavina Alexander, Rizwan Muhammad, Shi Yuanyuan, Vilimek Vítězslav, Davletshin Albert
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospect 32a, 119334, Moscow, Russia.
National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.
Sci Rep. 2024 Mar 11;14(1):5880. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-56607-z.
Previous research has demonstrated that Maasai and Europeans tend to align in their ratings of the physical strength and aggressiveness of Maasai male faces, calibrated to hand grip strength (HGS). However, perceptions of attractiveness of these faces differed among populations. In this study, three morphs of young Maasai men created by means of geometric morphometrics, and depicting the average sample and two extrema (± 4 SD of HGS), were assessed by men and women from Tanzania, Czech Republic, Russia, Pakistan, China, and Mexico (total sample = 1540). The aim of this study was to test cross-cultural differences in the perception of young Maasai men's composites calibrated to HGS, focusing on four traits: physical strength, attractiveness, aggressiveness, and helpfulness. Individuals from all six cultures were able to distinguish between low, medium, and high HGS portraits. Across all study populations, portrait of Maasai men with lower HGS was perceived as less attractive, more aggressive, and less helpful. This suggests that people from diverse populations share similar perceptions of physical strength based on facial shape, as well as attribute similar social qualities like aggressiveness and helpfulness to these facial images. Participants from all samples rated the composite image of weak Maasai men as the least attractive.
先前的研究表明，马赛人和欧洲人在对马赛男性面部的体力和攻击性评分上趋于一致，该评分以握力（HGS）为校准标准。然而，不同人群对这些面孔的吸引力感知存在差异。在本研究中，通过几何形态测量法创建了三位年轻马赛男性的变体，分别描绘了平均样本以及两个极值（HGS的±4标准差），来自坦桑尼亚、捷克共和国、俄罗斯、巴基斯坦、中国和墨西哥的男性和女性对其进行了评估（总样本 = 1540）。本研究的目的是测试根据HGS校准的年轻马赛男性合成面孔在跨文化感知上的差异，重点关注四个特征：体力、吸引力、攻击性和乐于助人程度。来自所有六种文化的个体都能够区分低、中、高HGS的画像。在所有研究人群中，HGS较低的马赛男性画像被认为吸引力较低、攻击性更强且乐于助人程度更低。这表明，不同人群的人们基于面部形状对体力有着相似的认知，并且对这些面部形象赋予了类似的社会品质，如攻击性和乐于助人程度。所有样本的参与者都将瘦弱的马赛男性合成图像评为最不具吸引力。
