Perceptions of Child Facial Cues as a Function of Child Age
Perceptions of Child Facial Cues as a Function of Child Age
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对儿童面部线索的感知作为儿童年龄的函数
DOI：
10.1177/147470490700500409
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
V. Quinsey
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作者：
A. Volk;Janeen L. Lukjanczuk;V. Quinsey
众所周知，儿童面部表情会影响成年人的感知、归因和父母的照顾行为。但这些线索的影响是如何随年龄变化的呢？关于年龄对儿童面部线索的影响，有三种相互竞争的理论：年龄较小的线索影响最大，年龄较大的线索影响最大，年龄线索不影响成年人。有经验发现为这些假说中的每一个提供支持。由于之前的研究没有关注成年人提供父母照顾的意愿，并且使用了有限的刺激集和/或统计数据，所以我们进行了两项研究，以确定儿童面部年龄相关的变化如何影响成年人在假设收养范式中的感知和评级。我们向大约200名成年人展示了8个不同年龄(从6个月到6岁)的12个不同儿童的图像。成人对领养偏好和可爱的评分与儿童面部刺激的年龄呈显著负相关，而儿童年龄与成人的健康评分之间没有一致的关系。我们的结果支持这样一种假设，即与年龄较小相关的面部暗示在引发与父母照顾相关的成年人反应方面最有效。
Child facial cues are known to influence adults' perceptions, attributions, and parental care behaviors. But how does the influence of these cues change with age? There are three competing theories regarding the influence of age on child facial cues: younger cues have the strongest influence, older cues have the strongest influence, and age cues do not influence adults. There are empirical findings that provide support for each of these hypotheses. Because previous studies have not focused on measures of adults' desire to provide parental care and have used limited stimulus sets and/or statistics, we conducted two studies to determine how age-related changes in child faces influenced adults' perceptions and ratings in the Hypothetical Adoption Paradigm. We presented approximately 200 adults with images of 12 different children at eight different ages (from six months to six years). Adults' ratings of adoption preference and cuteness were strongly and negatively related to the age of the child facial stimuli, while there was no consistent relationship between child age and adults' ratings of health. Our results support the hypothesis that facial cues associated with younger ages are most effective at eliciting adult responses associated with parental care.