Baby Schema in Infant Faces Induces Cuteness Perception and Motivation for Caretaking in Adults.
Baby Schema in Infant Faces Induces Cuteness Perception and Motivation for Caretaking in Adults.
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10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01603.x
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2009-03
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Sachser N
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Glocker ML;Langleben DD;Ruparel K;Loughead JW;Gur RC;Sachser N
动物行为学家Konrad Lorenz提出，婴儿图式（“Kindchenschema”）是一组婴儿的身体特征，如大头、圆脸和大眼睛，被认为是可爱的，并激发其他个体的照顾行为，具有提高后代存活率的进化功能。以前对这一基本概念的研究仅限于图式婴儿表征或相关方法。在这里，我们通过实验测试了婴儿图式对可爱感知和照顾动机的影响，使用婴儿面部照片。采用定量技术，我们对婴儿图式内容进行参数化处理，生成高（如圆脸和高额头）和低（如窄脸和低额头）婴儿图式特征的婴儿面孔，这些婴儿图式特征保留了照片肖像的所有特征。本科生（n = 122）对这些婴儿的可爱程度和照顾他们的动机进行了评分。高图式婴儿被认为比未被操纵和低图式婴儿更可爱，并激发出更强的照顾动机。这是婴儿图式效应在实际婴儿面部的第一个实验证明。我们的研究结果表明，婴儿图式反应是人类社会认知的一个关键功能，它可能是照顾的基础，并对婴儿和照顾者的互动有影响。
Ethologist Konrad Lorenz proposed that baby schema (‘Kindchenschema’) is a set of infantile physical features such as the large head, round face and big eyes that is perceived as cute and motivates caretaking behavior in other individuals, with the evolutionary function of enhancing offspring survival. Previous work on this fundamental concept was restricted to schematic baby representations or correlative approaches. Here, we experimentally tested the effects of baby schema on the perception of cuteness and the motivation for caretaking using photographs of infant faces. Employing quantitative techniques, we parametrically manipulated the baby schema content to produce infant faces with high (e.g. round face and high forehead), and low (e. g. narrow face and low forehead) baby schema features that retained all the characteristics of a photographic portrait. Undergraduate students (n = 122) rated these infants’ cuteness and their motivation to take care of them. The high baby schema infants were rated as more cute and elicited stronger motivation for caretaking than the unmanipulated and the low baby schema infants. This is the first experimental proof of the baby schema effects in actual infant faces. Our findings indicate that the baby schema response is a critical function of human social cognition that may be the basis of caregiving and have implications for infant–caretaker interactions.
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