Compatibility of basic social perceptions determines perceived attractiveness
Compatibility of basic social perceptions determines perceived attractiveness
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DOI：
10.1073/pnas.0608181104
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发表时间：
2007-03-20
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Tassinary, Louis G.
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作者：
Johnson, Kerri L.;Tassinary, Louis G.
人体的形状和运动提供了社会判断。身体的形状，特别是腰臀比，与感知的吸引力有关。早期的报告将这种效应解释为适应的证据，这一理论通常被称为腰臀比假说。从这个角度得出的许多预测在经验上都没有得到证实，这使得自然选择的问题没有得到解决。了解吸引力判断和身体暗示之间关系的认知机制对于理解其进化至关重要。在这里，我们发现感知到的吸引力与身体形状和运动是共同变化的，因为它们共同指定了相容或不相容的社会感知。身体的形状和运动分别激发了基本的社会感知，生理性别和社会性别（即男性气质/女性气质）。这些基本感知的兼容性预测了感知到的吸引力。我们报告了五项研究中线索兼容性重要性的证据，这些研究使用了不同的刺激（动画、静态线条图和动态线条图）。我们的研究结果表明，近端认知机制（本身可能是选择压力的产物）如何有助于调和之前相互矛盾的发现。
The human body's shape and motion afford social judgments. The body's shape, specifically the waist-to-hip ratio, has been related to perceived attractiveness. Early reports interpreted this effect to be evidence for adaptation, a theory known generally as the waist-to-hip ratio hypothesis. Many of the predictions derived from this perspective have been empirically disconfirmed, leaving the issue of natural selection unresolved. Knowing the cognitive mechanisms undergirding the relationship between judgments of attractiveness and body cues is essential to understanding its evolution. Here we show that perceived attractiveness covaries with body shape and motion because they cospecify social percepts that are either compatible or incompatible. The body's shape and motion provoke basic social perceptions, biological sex and gender (i.e., masculinity/femininity), respectively. The compatibility of these basic percepts predicts perceived attractiveness. We report evidence for the importance of cue compatibility in five studies that used diverse stimuli (animations, static line-drawings, and dynamic line-drawings). Our results demonstrate how a proximal cognitive mechanism, itself likely the product of selection pressures, helps to reconcile previous contradictory findings.