Brain asymmetry and facial attractiveness: Facial beauty is not simply in the eye of the beholder
Brain asymmetry and facial attractiveness: Facial beauty is not simply in the eye of the beholder
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10.1016/s0028-3932(96)00065-6
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1997-04-01
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2.6
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Zaidel, DW
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作者：
Chen, AC;German, C;Zaidel, DW
我们最近报告发现面部美丽外观不对称[Zaidel 等人，神经心理学，卷。 33，第 649-655 页，1995 年]。在这里，我们研究了面部美是否是一种稳定的特征（在主人的脸上），还是在观察者的感知空间中。我们将这个问题称为“所有者与观察者假设”。我们比较了观察者的身份判断和吸引力评级。受试者观察左右脸部的组合，并确定哪一张最类似于正常脸部（实验 1）。众所周知，身份判断（相似性）与观察者的感知因素有关。另一组观察相同的正常面孔并对它们的吸引力进行评分（实验 2）。在每个实验中，都有两种单独的观看条件：原始和反转（镜像）。横向反转确实影响了实验 1 的结果（证实了之前的发现 [Bennett et al., Neuropsychologia, Vol. 25, pp. 681-687, 1987; Gilbert and Bakan, Journal of Anatomy; Vol. 183, pp. 593-600, 1993]），但不影响实验 2 的结果。事实上，横向反转不影响实验 2 的结果表明，与面部身份相比，面部吸引力更多地取决于（所有者的）相貌，而不是（观察者的）不对称感知过程。研究结果在美的生物学意义和大脑中的面部处理的背景下进行了讨论。 (C) 1997 爱思唯尔科学有限公司。
We recently reported finding asymmetry in the appearance of beauty on the face [Zaidel et al., Neuropsychologia, Vol. 33, pp. 649-655, 1995]. Here, we investigated whether facial beauty is a stable characteristic (on the owner's very face) or is in the perceptual space of the observer. We call the question 'the owner vs observer hypothesis'. We compared identity judgements and attractiveness ratings of observers. Subjects viewed left-left and right-right composites of faces and decided which most resembled the normal face (Experiment 1). Identity judgements (resemblance) are known to be associated with perceptual factors in the observer. Another group viewed the same normal faces and rated them on attractiveness (Experiment 2). In each experiment, there were two separate viewing conditions, original and reversed (mirror-image). Lateral reversal did affect the results of Experiment 1 (confirming previous findings [Bennett et al., Neuropsychologia, Vol. 25, pp. 681-687, 1987; Gilbert and Bakan, Journal of Anatomy; Vol. 183, pp. 593-600, 1993]) but did not affect the results of Experiment 2. The fact that lateral reversal did not affect the results of Experiment 2 suggests that facial attractiveness is more dependent on physiognomy (of the owner) and less dependent on an asymmetrical perceptual process (in the observer) than is facial identity. The results are discussed in the context of beauty's biological significance and facial processing in the brain. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.