The Relative Contributions of Facial Shape and Surface Information to Perceptions of Attractiveness and Dominance
The Relative Contributions of Facial Shape and Surface Information to Perceptions of Attractiveness and Dominance
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面部形状和表面信息对吸引力和主导地位感知的相对贡献
作者：
Jaimie S. Torrance;Joanna Wincenciak;Amanda C. Hahn;L. DeBruine;B. Jones
尽管许多研究已经调查了影响他人吸引力和支配感的面部特征，但大多数研究都集中在形状信息或表面信息单独的影响上。因此，面部形状和表面特征对吸引力和支配感的相对贡献尚不清楚。为了解决这个问题，我们研究了原始版本的面部评分与表面信息标准化（即只有形状的版本）或形状信息标准化（即只有表面的版本）的版本评分之间的关系。对于男性和女性面孔的吸引力和支配性判断，只看外形和只看外表的评分独立地预测了原始面孔的评分。原始版本和纯形状版本的评分之间的相关性以及原始版本和纯表面版本的评分之间的相关性仅在两个实例中有所不同。对于男性的吸引力，原始版本的评分与只看外表的评分比只看外形的评分关系更大，这表明外表信息对男性的面部吸引力尤为重要。女性的身体优势则相反，这表明形状信息对女性面部的身体优势尤为重要。总之，我们的研究结果表明，面部形状和表面信息都有助于判断他人的吸引力和支配性，这表明在研究这些主题时考虑这两种信息来源可能很重要。
Although many studies have investigated the facial characteristics that influence perceptions of others’ attractiveness and dominance, the majority of these studies have focused on either the effects of shape information or surface information alone. Consequently, the relative contributions of facial shape and surface characteristics to attractiveness and dominance perceptions are unclear. To address this issue, we investigated the relationships between ratings of original versions of faces and ratings of versions in which either surface information had been standardized (i.e., shape-only versions) or shape information had been standardized (i.e., surface-only versions). For attractiveness and dominance judgments of both male and female faces, ratings of shape-only and surface-only versions independently predicted ratings of the original versions of faces. The correlations between ratings of original and shape-only versions and between ratings of original and surface-only versions differed only in two instances. For male attractiveness, ratings of original versions were more strongly related to ratings of surface-only than shape-only versions, suggesting that surface information is particularly important for men’s facial attractiveness. The opposite was true for female physical dominance, suggesting that shape information is particularly important for women’s facial physical dominance. In summary, our results indicate that both facial shape and surface information contribute to judgments of others’ attractiveness and dominance, suggesting that it may be important to consider both sources of information in research on these topics.