2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
attractiveness judgements of multi-element groups
| Project/Area Number |
26590183
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Experimental psychology
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| Research Institution | Hokkaido University (2015)
Chukyo University (2014) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MIYAZAKI Yuki 福山大学, 人間文化学部心理学科, 講師 (70600873)
KITAZAKI Michiteru 豊橋技術科学大学, 大学院工学研究科, 准教授 (90292739)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | attractiveness |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Extant studies have examined factors contributing to perception of attractiveness
of individual human faces. The present study examined whether observers could compare the group-wide attractiveness between two groups consisted of multiple members. Observers were briefly exposed with two frames of images each of which consisted of four faces and determined the one that they believed more attractive as a whole. The results indicated that discrimination accuracy was above chance level. Virtually identical pattern of the results was obtained when each group consisted of eight faces. Study 2 examined the effect of variance of members and found that larger variances decreased attractiveness when attractiveness of the members were low. Study 3 examined the effect of sanitary mask on attractiveness perception. We proposed a model that facial occlusion by a sanitary mask has a unique effect,
due to occlusion and unhealthiness priming.
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| Free Research Field |
Experimental psychology
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