期刊
ETHOLOGY
卷 118, 期 8, 页码 775-782出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2012.02068.x
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资金
- Royal Society University Research Fellowship
Physical traits that are characteristic of human infants are referred to as baby-schema, and the notion that these affect perception of cuteness and elicit care giving from adults has a long history. In this study, infant-similarity was experimentally manipulated using the difference between adult and infant faces. Human infant, human adult and cat faces were manipulated to look more (human) infant-like or adult-like. The results from the current study demonstrate the impact of infant-similarity on human adults' perception of cuteness across the three different types of face. The type of face had a large impact on perceived cuteness in line with the expected infant-similarity of the images. Infants and cats were cutest while adults were less cute. The manipulations of infant-similarity, however, had similar effects on the perception of cuteness across all three types of face. Faces manipulated to have infant-like traits were rated as cuter than their equivalents manipulated to have adult-like traits. These data demonstrate that baby-like traits have a powerful hold over human perceptions and that these effects are not simply limited to infant faces.
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