You and your cats appear more attractive in a crowd of cats: The cheerleader effect in human/animal facial attractiveness
You and your cats appear more attractive in a crowd of cats: The cheerleader effect in human/animal facial attractiveness
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你和你的猫在一群猫中显得更有吸引力：人类/动物面部吸引力的啦啦队长效应
DOI：
10.1007/s12144-022-03984-1
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Kawabata Hideaki
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作者：
Zhou Yizhen;Kawabata Hideaki
现在有重要的证据表明，一种视觉现象，即在一个群体中出现的面孔更有吸引力，被称为“啦啦队效应”。尽管在人脸中发现了公认的啦啦队效应，但关于观察这种效应的必要条件仍然存在不确定性。此外，在群体中看到非人类动物刺激时对吸引力判断的影响尚未得到充分研究。本研究通过两个实验考察了人脸和猫脸的啦啦队效应。这种效应受到周围群体的类别和目标的吸引力的影响：当被猫脸包围时，人脸和猫脸目标都显得更有吸引力，并且相对于有吸引力的目标，吸引力较小的目标受益更多。研究结果还表明，有更大的增加吸引力评级的猫脸目标时，他们提出了一个有吸引力的猫组相比，当他们提出了一个没有吸引力的猫组。综上所述，这些发现表明，啦啦队效应不仅发生在人类身上，也发生在非人类动物的脸上。对人类刺激的啦啦队效应可能存在层次编码和对比效应的双重影响，对非人类动物的啦啦队效应可能存在特定的路径。
There is now significant evidence regarding a visual phenomenon that faces appear more attractive when shown in a group, known as the “cheerleader effect”. Despite the well-established cheerleader effect found in human faces, uncertainty remains regarding the necessary conditions to observe this effect. Further, the influence on attractiveness judgment when seeing non-human animal stimuli in groups has not been fully explored. The present study investigated the cheerleader effect for both human and cat faces in two experiments. Such effects were influenced by the categories of the surrounding group and the attractiveness of the targets: both human face and cat face targets appeared more attractive when surrounded by cat faces, and the less attractive targets benefited more in relation to attractive ones. The results also indicate that there was a greater increase in attractiveness ratings for cat face targets when they were presented in an attractive cat group compared to when they were presented in an unattractive cat group. Taken together, these findings suggest that the cheerleader effect occurs not only for human but also for non-human animal faces. There is a possible dual influence of hierarchical encoding and contrast effects upon the cheerleader effect for human stimuli, and there may exist specific routes for non-human animals.