皮肤色调的群体内部差异影响评估和感知面部处理.
1University of the South Pacific, Port Vila, Vanuatu.
PloS one
|January 2, 2024
概括
原住民美拉尼西亚参与者表现出色彩偏见,更喜欢肤浅的面孔,特别是有吸引力的男性. 这种偏见在意识评估和非意识感知中都被观察到,这表明皮肤色调是一个突出的提示.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
- 跨文化心理学 跨文化心理学
背景情况:
- 肤色偏见,即偏爱肤色较浅的偏见,是一种普遍的全球现象.
- 之前的研究主要集中在西方环境中,使得非西方人口中的偏见未被充分探索.
- 梅拉尼西亚社会提供了一个独特的文化背景来调查色彩主义偏见的普遍性.
研究的目的:
- 为了调查本地美拉尼西亚参与者对非美拉尼西亚面部目标的感知和评估中的色彩偏见.
- 检查皮肤色调的显式 (评估) 和隐式 (感知) 处理.
- 在面部感知中探索皮肤色调,吸引力和性之间的相互作用.
主要方法:
- 在三项研究中采用了多方法方法.
- 第一项研究使用了305名参与者的吸引力评分.
- 第二项研究使用隐性关联测试 (IATs) 对153名参与者进行了研究.
- 第三项研究涉及手动分类任务和61名参与者进行突破性持续闪抑制 (b-CFS) 范式,以评估非意识偏见.
主要成果:
- 在明确的测量中,男性和女性黑兰西亚参与者都始终更喜欢肤色更浅,高度有吸引力的男性面孔.
- 在b-CFS范式中,更明亮和更有吸引力的异性面孔被感知得比更深色的面孔更快,这表明非意识偏见.
- 吸引力和更浅的皮肤色调相互作用,影响了有意识的偏好和无意识的感知.
结论:
- 梅拉尼西亚原住民参与者在面部感知和评估中表现出色彩偏见.
- 皮肤色调似乎是一个显著的感知线索,特别是在信号高生殖潜力时.
- 这些发现有助于理解色彩主义的跨文化流行和心理机制.
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