A sex difference in facial contrast and its exaggeration by cosmetics
A sex difference in facial contrast and its exaggeration by cosmetics
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DOI：
10.1068/p6331
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
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影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Russell, Richard
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作者：
Russell, Richard
这项研究证明了面部对比中存在性别差异。通过对仔细控制的摄影图像进行测量，研究表明，女性面部的眼睛、嘴唇和周围皮肤之间的亮度对比度比男性面部要大。这种面部对比的性别差异被发现影响了对种族性别的感知。所有雌雄同体的脸都可以通过增加面部对比度来表现为女性，或者通过降低面部对比度来表现为男性。研究发现，使用化妆品会持续增加面部对比度。涂了化妆品的女性脸部对比比不涂化妆品的女性脸部反差更大。众所周知，女性的面部美貌与性别差异密切相关，女性气质被认为具有吸引力。这些结果表明，化妆品的部分功能可能是通过夸大性二态属性--面部反差--来使脸看起来更女性化，从而更具吸引力。
This study demonstrates the existence of a sex difference in facial contrast. By measuring carefully controlled photographic images, female faces were shown to have greater luminance contrast between the eyes, lips, and the surrounding skin than did male faces. This sex difference in facial contrast was found to influence the perception of racial gender. All androgynous face can be made to appear female by increasing the facial contrast, or to appear male by decreasing the facial contrast. Application of cosmetics was found to consistently increase facial contrast. Female faces wearing cosmetics had greater facial contrast than the same faces not wearing cosmetics. Female facial beauty is known to be closely linked to sex differences, with femininity considered attractive. These results Suggest that cosmetics may function in part by exaggerating a sexually dimorphic attribute-facial contrast-to make the face appear more feminine and hence attractive.