Visual attention to faces during attractiveness and dominance judgements
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023752%3A_____%2F25%3A43921496" target="_blank" >RIV/00023752:_____/25:43921496 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11120/25:43928235
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2025.2" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2025.2</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2025.2" target="_blank" >10.1017/ehs.2025.2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Visual attention to faces during attractiveness and dominance judgements
Original language description
Perception studies describe numerous discrete morphological facial features as important to judgments of various characteristics. Interestingly, little is known about whether people actually direct their visual attention to these features and how specific contexts or sex affect this attention. We, therefore, examined visual attention to faces in the context of intersexual (opposite-sex assessment of attractiveness) and intrasexual (same-sex assessment of dominance) selection. In total, 93 women and 33 men rated 80 high-resolution facial photographs of men and women while their gaze was recorded using eye-tracking. To explore patterns of raters' attention to faces and specific facial features, we used the number of fixations, fixation duration, and visit duration as visual attention measures. Women directed more visual attention towards the faces of potential partners (more fixations) than potential rivals, and men had longer visit duration when assessing potential partners than rivals. Facial features that acquired the most visual attention across contexts and sexes were the eyes, nose, and mouth, but small differences between the sexes and contexts in visual attention were found for other facial regions suggested by previous perception studies, such as the chin and the cheeks indicating their importance in specific judgements. © The Author(s), 2025.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50103 - Cognitive sciences
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Evolutionary Human Sciences
ISSN
2513-843X
e-ISSN
2513-843X
Volume of the periodical
7
Issue of the periodical within the volume
"Article Number e15"
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
1-19
UT code for WoS article
001480992100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85219665076