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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kong, Ling Fang

Titel

An eye-movement research on facial cues of mate choice and kin recognition

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Translation from original language as provided by authorMate choice and kin recognition are important decisions . Facial features are one of important clues of these two decisions. Previous studies have found that self-facial resemblance increases attractiveness and trustworthiness judgement. This article investigates the different patterns of eye movement when engaging in attractiveness and trustworthiness judgement which are the index of mate choice and kin recognition respectively. 3 experiments are conducted: Experiment1 examines the Separability of the two judgment tasks. Experiment2 investigates the eye movements when engaging in attractiveness and trustworthiness judgement on other people's face. Experiment3 investigates the eye movements when engaging in attractiveness and trustworthiness judgement on self-resembling face. Conclusions: a) Judgement of attractiveness and trustworthiness are two separable tasks. The differences of fixations and fixation duration in interest areas between two tasks are n