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Your face looks the same as before, only prettier: The facial skin homogeneity effects on face change detection and facial attractiveness perception

Previous studies suggested that (1) facial attractiveness perception can be increased with facial skin homogeneity improving; and (2) human’s facial change detection increases along with facial skin homogeneity increases. However, it’s unknown whether a face can be perceived prettier than it did bef...

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Autores principales: Sun, Yu-Hao P., Zhang, Xiaohui, Lu, Ningyan, Li, Jing, Wang, Zhe
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/PMC9667065/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36405180
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.935347
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author Sun, Yu-Hao P.
Zhang, Xiaohui
Lu, Ningyan
Li, Jing
Wang, Zhe
author_facet Sun, Yu-Hao P.
Zhang, Xiaohui
Lu, Ningyan
Li, Jing
Wang, Zhe
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description Previous studies suggested that (1) facial attractiveness perception can be increased with facial skin homogeneity improving; and (2) human’s facial change detection increases along with facial skin homogeneity increases. However, it’s unknown whether a face can be perceived prettier than it did before while still being considered as physically the same. It is possible that these two kinds of cognitive-aesthetic processing may have separate mathematical functions in psychophysical studies. In other words, human’s facial attractiveness differentiation may be more sensitive than facial change detection. In this current study, we explored the above questions. Using three types of psychophysical techniques to manipulate facial skin homogeneity, we measured how participants’ sensitivity to facial skin homogeneity and attractiveness change. Results showed a linear function curve for facial physical change detection and a logarithmic function curve was drawn in the forced-choice technique, which was the most sensitive one, indicating that participants can judge a face prettier than before without being aware of it has physically changed. Besides, two linear function curves were shown in the same/different technique and a rating technique. Taken together, this current study revealed that facial attractiveness can be enhanced and discriminated by improving facial skin homogeneity, without being realized by people with conscious awareness that the face has been changed.
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spelling pubmed-96670652022-11-17 Your face looks the same as before, only prettier: The facial skin homogeneity effects on face change detection and facial attractiveness perception Sun, Yu-Hao P. Zhang, Xiaohui Lu, Ningyan Li, Jing Wang, Zhe Front Psychol Psychology Previous studies suggested that (1) facial attractiveness perception can be increased with facial skin homogeneity improving; and (2) human’s facial change detection increases along with facial skin homogeneity increases. However, it’s unknown whether a face can be perceived prettier than it did before while still being considered as physically the same. It is possible that these two kinds of cognitive-aesthetic processing may have separate mathematical functions in psychophysical studies. In other words, human’s facial attractiveness differentiation may be more sensitive than facial change detection. In this current study, we explored the above questions. Using three types of psychophysical techniques to manipulate facial skin homogeneity, we measured how participants’ sensitivity to facial skin homogeneity and attractiveness change. Results showed a linear function curve for facial physical change detection and a logarithmic function curve was drawn in the forced-choice technique, which was the most sensitive one, indicating that participants can judge a face prettier than before without being aware of it has physically changed. Besides, two linear function curves were shown in the same/different technique and a rating technique. Taken together, this current study revealed that facial attractiveness can be enhanced and discriminated by improving facial skin homogeneity, without being realized by people with conscious awareness that the face has been changed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9667065/ /pubmed/36405180 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.935347 Text en Copyright © 2022 Sun, Zhang, Lu, Li and Wang. 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.
spellingShingle Psychology
Sun, Yu-Hao P.
Zhang, Xiaohui
Lu, Ningyan
Li, Jing
Wang, Zhe
Your face looks the same as before, only prettier: The facial skin homogeneity effects on face change detection and facial attractiveness perception
title Your face looks the same as before, only prettier: The facial skin homogeneity effects on face change detection and facial attractiveness perception
title_full Your face looks the same as before, only prettier: The facial skin homogeneity effects on face change detection and facial attractiveness perception
title_fullStr Your face looks the same as before, only prettier: The facial skin homogeneity effects on face change detection and facial attractiveness perception
title_full_unstemmed Your face looks the same as before, only prettier: The facial skin homogeneity effects on face change detection and facial attractiveness perception
title_short Your face looks the same as before, only prettier: The facial skin homogeneity effects on face change detection and facial attractiveness perception
title_sort your face looks the same as before, only prettier: the facial skin homogeneity effects on face change detection and facial attractiveness perception
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9667065/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36405180
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.935347
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