Children's judgements of facial hair are influenced by biological development and experience
| Autor: | Barnaby J. W. Dixson, Anthony J. Lee, Siobhan Kennedy-Costantini, Nicole L. Nelson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Attractiveness
media_common.quotation_subject 050109 social psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology dominance 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Face perception evolution medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics media_common child development 05 social sciences Facial hair Late adolescence Child development Mate value medicine.anatomical_structure Mate choice Masculinity face perception facial hair Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Evolution and Human Behavior. 40:551-556 |
| ISSN: | 1090-5138 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.06.002 |
| Popis: | Adults use features such as facial hair to judge others' social dominance and mate value, but the origin of these judgments is unknown. We sought to determine when these associations develop, which associations develop first, and whether they are associated with early exposure to bearded faces. We presented pairs of bearded and clean-shaven faces to children (2–17 years old; N = 470) and adults (18–22 years; N = 164) and asked them to judge dominance traits (strength, age, masculinity) and mate choice traits (attractiveness, parenting quality). Young children associated beardedness with dominance traits but not mate choice traits. This pattern became more extreme during late childhood and gradually shifted toward adult-like responses during early adolescence. Responses for all traits were adult-like in late adolescence. Finally, having a bearded father was associated with positive judgments of bearded faces for mate choice traits in childhood and both mate choice and dominance traits in adolescence. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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