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Face beauty or soul beauty? The influence of facial attractiveness and moral judgment on pain empathy

Previous studies indicated that both facial attractiveness (face beauty) and moral judgment (soul beauty) would impact the responses to others’ pain, however, the effects from facial attractiveness were in controversial. Furthermore, whether facial attractiveness would increase or decrease the effec...

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Autores principales: Zhu, Jiawen, Yang, Zhou, Ma, Ruining, Yin, Lixing, Hu, Xucong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9582988/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36275267
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.990637
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author Zhu, Jiawen
Yang, Zhou
Ma, Ruining
Yin, Lixing
Hu, Xucong
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Yang, Zhou
Ma, Ruining
Yin, Lixing
Hu, Xucong
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description Previous studies indicated that both facial attractiveness (face beauty) and moral judgment (soul beauty) would impact the responses to others’ pain, however, the effects from facial attractiveness were in controversial. Furthermore, whether facial attractiveness would increase or decrease the effects of moral judgment on pain empathy were still unknown. Based on the videos in which actors with high versus low facial attractiveness under pain or non-pain conditions, study 1 recruited 26 undergraduates to assess the effects of facial attractiveness on participants’ pain intensity rating scores. Then study 2 recruited 85 undergraduates to examine the effects of facial attractiveness and moral judgment on pain empathy by assessing pain intensity and self-uncomfortableness rating scores. Study 1 found that participants rated higher pain intensity scores to actors with high facial attractiveness compared to low facial attractive actors under pain condition. Study 2 found that participants showed higher pain empathic responses for actors with high moral judgment, no matter their facial attractiveness were high or low. For actors with low moral judgment under pain condition, participants showed higher pain empathy to those with high facial attractiveness compared to those with low facial attractiveness. In conclusion, facial attractiveness could facilitate the empathy responses for other’s pain. High facial attractiveness would increase the pain empathic responses to individuals with low moral judgment, however, low facial attractiveness would not decrease the pain empathic responses to individuals with high moral judgment.
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spelling pubmed-95829882022-10-21 Face beauty or soul beauty? The influence of facial attractiveness and moral judgment on pain empathy Zhu, Jiawen Yang, Zhou Ma, Ruining Yin, Lixing Hu, Xucong Front Psychol Psychology Previous studies indicated that both facial attractiveness (face beauty) and moral judgment (soul beauty) would impact the responses to others’ pain, however, the effects from facial attractiveness were in controversial. Furthermore, whether facial attractiveness would increase or decrease the effects of moral judgment on pain empathy were still unknown. Based on the videos in which actors with high versus low facial attractiveness under pain or non-pain conditions, study 1 recruited 26 undergraduates to assess the effects of facial attractiveness on participants’ pain intensity rating scores. Then study 2 recruited 85 undergraduates to examine the effects of facial attractiveness and moral judgment on pain empathy by assessing pain intensity and self-uncomfortableness rating scores. Study 1 found that participants rated higher pain intensity scores to actors with high facial attractiveness compared to low facial attractive actors under pain condition. Study 2 found that participants showed higher pain empathic responses for actors with high moral judgment, no matter their facial attractiveness were high or low. For actors with low moral judgment under pain condition, participants showed higher pain empathy to those with high facial attractiveness compared to those with low facial attractiveness. In conclusion, facial attractiveness could facilitate the empathy responses for other’s pain. High facial attractiveness would increase the pain empathic responses to individuals with low moral judgment, however, low facial attractiveness would not decrease the pain empathic responses to individuals with high moral judgment. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9582988/ /pubmed/36275267 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.990637 Text en Copyright © 2022 Zhu, Yang, Ma, Yin and Hu. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Zhu, Jiawen
Yang, Zhou
Ma, Ruining
Yin, Lixing
Hu, Xucong
Face beauty or soul beauty? The influence of facial attractiveness and moral judgment on pain empathy
title Face beauty or soul beauty? The influence of facial attractiveness and moral judgment on pain empathy
title_full Face beauty or soul beauty? The influence of facial attractiveness and moral judgment on pain empathy
title_fullStr Face beauty or soul beauty? The influence of facial attractiveness and moral judgment on pain empathy
title_full_unstemmed Face beauty or soul beauty? The influence of facial attractiveness and moral judgment on pain empathy
title_short Face beauty or soul beauty? The influence of facial attractiveness and moral judgment on pain empathy
title_sort face beauty or soul beauty? the influence of facial attractiveness and moral judgment on pain empathy
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9582988/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36275267
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.990637
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