How Beauty Determines Gaze! Facial Attractiveness and Gaze Duration in Images of Real World Scenes

Helmut Leder; Aleksandra Mitrovic; Jürgen Goller

doi:10.1177/2041669516664355

How Beauty Determines Gaze! Facial Attractiveness and Gaze Duration in Images of Real World Scenes

Helmut Leder, Aleksandra Mitrovic, Jürgen Goller

Institut für Psychologie der Kognition, Emotion und Methoden

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Abstract

We showed that the looking time spent on faces is a valid covariate of beauty by testing the relation between facial attractiveness and gaze behavior. We presented natural scenes which always pictured two people, encompassing a wide range of facial attractiveness. Employing measurements of eye movements in a free viewing paradigm, we found a linear relation between facial attractiveness and gaze behavior: The more attractive the face, the longer and the more often it was looked at. In line with evolutionary approaches, the positive relation was particularly pronounced when participants viewed other sex faces.

Originalsprache	Englisch
Seitenumfang	12
Fachzeitschrift	i-Perception
Jahrgang	7
Ausgabenummer	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669516664355
Publikationsstatus	Veröffentlicht - Aug. 2016

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