The power of external influences to modify judgments of facial and moral beauty.
beauty judgments
facial beauty
judgmental conformity
moral beauty
neuroaesthetics
Journal
PsyCh journal
ISSN: 2046-0260
Titre abrégé: Psych J
Pays: Australia
ID NLM: 101598595
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Oct 2022
Oct 2022
Historique:
received:
23
06
2021
accepted:
13
09
2021
pubmed:
7
10
2021
medline:
12
10
2022
entrez:
6
10
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Empirical evidence shows that the often-made positive correlation between human physical and moral beauty is tenuous. In this study, we aimed to learn whether facial and moral beauty can be psychophysically separated. Participants (n = 95) provided beauty and goodness (i.e., trustworthiness) ratings for pictures of faces, after which they were presented with a fictitious peer rating for the same face and asked to re-rate the face. We used the difference between the initial and final ratings to quantify the degree of resistance to external influence. We found that judgments of facial beauty were more resistant to external influence than judgments of facial "goodness"; in addition, there was significantly higher agreement within beauty ratings than within goodness ratings. These findings are discussed in light of our Bayesian-Laplacian classification of priors, from which we conclude that moral beauty relies more upon acquired "artifactual" priors and facial beauty more on inherited biological priors.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
707-714Subventions
Organisme : Leverhulme Trust
ID : RPG-2017-341
Informations de copyright
© 2021 Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.
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