Cross-Cultural Agreement in Facial Attractiveness Preferences: The Role of Ethnicity and Gender
Cross-Cultural Agreement in Facial Attractiveness Preferences: The Role of Ethnicity and Gender
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0099629
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发表时间：
2014-07-02
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Perrett, David I.
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作者：
Coetzee, Vinet;Greeff, Jaco M.;Perrett, David I.
之前的研究表明，不同文化内部和不同文化之间的面部吸引力偏好高度一致。当前研究的目的是双重的。首先，我们测试了苏格兰白人和南非黑人学生对自己和其他种族面孔的吸引力判断的跨文化一致性。结果显示，苏格兰白人和南非黑人观察者对吸引力的判断存在显着一致性，这进一步证明了面部吸引力偏好的跨文化一致性。其次，我们测试了跨文化一致性是否受到目标群体的种族和/或性别的影响。苏格兰白人和南非黑人观察者对苏格兰面孔的一致性明显高于对非洲面孔的一致性，大概是因为两个群体都熟悉欧洲白人的面部特征，但苏格兰群体不太熟悉非洲黑人的面部特征。进一步调查非洲面孔跨文化吸引力偏好差异的研究表明，南非黑人观察者在判断非洲女性面孔吸引力时更依赖颜色线索，而苏格兰白人观察者更依赖形状线索。结果还显示，与男性面孔相比，女性面孔的跨文化一致性更高，尽管并不明显更高。这些发现为影响吸引力偏好的跨文化一致性的因素提供了新的线索。
Previous work showed high agreement in facial attractiveness preferences within and across cultures. The aims of the current study were twofold. First, we tested cross-cultural agreement in the attractiveness judgements of White Scottish and Black South African students for own-and other-ethnicity faces. Results showed significant agreement between White Scottish and Black South African observers' attractiveness judgements, providing further evidence of strong cross-cultural agreement in facial attractiveness preferences. Second, we tested whether cross-cultural agreement is influenced by the ethnicity and/or the gender of the target group. White Scottish and Black South African observers showed significantly higher agreement for Scottish than for African faces, presumably because both groups are familiar with White European facial features, but the Scottish group are less familiar with Black African facial features. Further work investigating this discordance in cross-cultural attractiveness preferences for African faces show that Black South African observers rely more heavily on colour cues when judging African female faces for attractiveness, while White Scottish observers rely more heavily on shape cues. Results also show higher cross-cultural agreement for female, compared to male faces, albeit not significantly higher. The findings shed new light on the factors that influence cross-cultural agreement in attractiveness preferences.