Men's facial masculinity: when (body) size matters
Men's facial masculinity: when (body) size matters
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DOI：
10.1068/p7673
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发表时间：
2014-01-01
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影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Perrett, David I.
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作者：
Holzleitner, Iris J.;Hunter, David W.;Perrett, David I.
最近的研究表明，面部男性化的判断反映了更多的性别二态形状。在这里，我们调查了男性气质的感知是否受到身高和体重的面部线索的影响。我们使用40名男性和40名女性的三维面部形状的平均差异来计算形态男性气质评分，并根据矮和高，轻和重男性的平均面部形状推导出面部高度和体重相关性的类似测量。我们发现，面部线索的身高和体重有实质性的和独立的影响男性气质的看法。我们的研究结果表明，如果男性看起来更高、更重，他们会被认为更有男子气概，这与他们的脸型与女性的不同程度无关。我们描述了一种简单的方法来量化身体特征如何反映在脸上，并定义心理归因的物理基础。
Recent studies suggest that judgments of facial masculinity reflect more than sexually dimorphic shape. Here, we investigated whether the perception of masculinity is influenced by facial cues to body height and weight. We used the average differences in three-dimensional face shape of forty men and forty women to compute a morphological masculinity score, and derived analogous measures for facial correlates of height and weight based on the average face shape of short and tall, and light and heavy men. We found that facial cues to body height and weight had substantial and independent effects on the perception of masculinity. Our findings suggest that men are perceived as more masculine if they appear taller and heavier, independent of how much their face shape differs from women's. We describe a simple method to quantify how body traits are reflected in the face and to define the physical basis of psychological attributions.