Wu Weiwen, Tian Yu
Institute of Brain and Psychological Sciences, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China.
Psych J. 2024 Jun;13(3):387-397. doi: 10.1002/pchj.744. Epub 2024 Mar 26.
Recent research has indicated that attractive faces often cause a dilation of our time perception thus affecting physical and mental health, and speculates that this could be relevant to the fact that attractive faces capture people's attention. Nevertheless, there was no direct experimental data to support this speculation. The present work was designed to illustrate how attention affects time perception of facial attractiveness. It utilized two experiments to investigate this phenomenon. In Experiment 1, perception of timing and attention bias were assessed using a temporal reproduction task and a dot-probe task. Increased attention bias was found to mediate the time dilation effect of facial attractiveness. Experiment 2 adopted dual-task paradigm, combining a temporal reproduction task and attractiveness rating task, to manipulate attention allocation. The findings suggested that allocating more attention to the task requiring timing enhanced the time dilation effect caused by the faces. Results of Experiments 1 and 2 converge to show that attention plays an essential role in the effects of facial attractiveness on time perception.
最近的研究表明，有吸引力的面孔常常会导致我们对时间的感知产生扩张，从而影响身心健康，并推测这可能与有吸引力的面孔吸引人们的注意力这一事实有关。然而，并没有直接的实验数据支持这一推测。目前的这项研究旨在说明注意力是如何影响对面部吸引力的时间感知的。它通过两个实验来研究这一现象。在实验1中，使用时间再现任务和点探测任务评估时间感知和注意力偏差。结果发现，注意力偏差的增加介导了面部吸引力的时间扩张效应。实验2采用双任务范式，将时间再现任务和吸引力评级任务相结合，以操纵注意力分配。研究结果表明，将更多注意力分配到需要计时的任务上会增强面孔引起的时间扩张效应。实验1和实验2的结果共同表明，注意力在面部吸引力对时间感知的影响中起着至关重要的作用。
