Visual attention to faces during attractiveness and dominance judgements

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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023752%3A_____%2F25%3A43921496" target="_blank" >RIV/00023752:_____/25:43921496 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216208:11120/25:43928235

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Visual attention to faces during attractiveness and dominance judgements

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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&apos; 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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Visual attention to faces during attractiveness and dominance judgements

Popis výsledku anglicky

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&apos; 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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50103 - Cognitive sciences

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Evolutionary Human Sciences

ISSN

2513-843X

e-ISSN

2513-843X

Svazek periodika

7

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

"Article Number e15"

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

19

Strana od-do

1-19

Kód UT WoS článku

001480992100001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85219665076