Preference for symmetry: only on mars?
Preference for symmetry: only on mars?
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对对称性的偏好：仅在火星上？
作者：
Shepherd,Kathrine;Bar,Moshe
对对称性的偏爱是一种在整个动物界都存在的强烈偏见。在人类身上，对对称性的偏爱已经在许多领域得到了证明，包括人脸和视觉图案。这种强烈的审美偏见的作用仍不为我们所知，但突出的描述集中在它在择偶和知觉流畅性方面的作用。以前的研究表明，男性和女性都认为对称的面孔更有吸引力，但在这里，我们表明，在中性刺激(即日常和无意义的视觉物体)中，对称的偏好是男性参与者独有的。我们的发现表明，对称性偏好不能完全由知觉或计算效率来解释，因为这样的解释是独立于领域的，而女性对这里测试的对象并没有表现出任何偏见。需要进一步的研究来阐明男性对视觉对象对称性的偏好的作用。
Preference for symmetry is a robust bias found throughout the animal kingdom. In humans, the bias for symmetry has been documented in numerous domains, including faces and visual patterns. The function of this potent aesthetic bias still eludes us, but prominent accounts focus on its role in mate selection and perceptual fluency. Previous studies have shown that both males and females find symmetrical faces to be more attractive, but here we show that the preference for symmetry in neutral stimuli (ie everyday and meaningless visual objects) is, on the other hand, unique to male participants. Our findings indicate that symmetry preference cannot be explained exclusively by perceptual or computational efficiency, because such an account is domain-independent yet females did not show any bias for the objects tested here. Further studies are needed to elucidate the utility of the male preference for visual object symmetry.