Reversed Facial Images and the Mere-Exposure Hypothesis
Reversed Facial Images and the Mere-Exposure Hypothesis
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反转的面部图像和单纯曝光假设
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1977
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通讯作者:
J. Knight
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作者:
T. Mita;M. Dermer;J. Knight
The mere-exposure hypothesis was tested in a new context in which the plausibility of a demand-characteristics explanation was minimized. It was assumed that Person has more frequently been exposed to her mirror image than true image, whereas Person's Friend or Lover has more frequently been exposed to Person's true image than mirror image. According to the mere-exposure hypothesis, Person should prefer her mirror image, whereas her Friend or Lover should prefer Person's true image. A single frontal facial photograph of Person was printed in such a way that one print corresponded to Person's true image and another to her mirror image. In two studies, Person was found reliably to prefer her mirror image over her true image, whereas the reverse tendency characterized preferences of Person's Friend or Lover. The "mere-exposure" hypothesis (Zajonc, than other stimuli, suggesting that partici1968), that the mere repeated exposure of an pants' intuition could possibly account for individual to a stimulus is a sufficient condi- the exposure-affect relationship found in the tion for the enhancement of stimulus evalu- other studies. Stang suggested that the variation, has been studied extensively. In the ables investigated be more carefully embedded basic within-participants design, individuals in plausible cover stories and, at the very initially view unfamiliar stimuli, such as non- least, that postexperimental inquiries regardsense words, ideographs, or facial photographs, ing demand characteristics be made. Morea varying number of times and subsequently land and Zajonc (1976) recently addressed rate these materials along either good/bad or the demand issue in a study in which exlike/dislike dimensions. Typically, the stimuli posure frequency was a between-partid pants that are seen more frequently receive more manipulation. Participants appeared to have favorable evaluations, in accord with the ex- been unaware of the experimental hypothesis posure hypothesis. as revealed by postexperimental inquiries, A serious problem in nearly all of the and the mere-exposure hypothesis was corstudies involving the experimental manipula- roborated.