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Beauty and cuteness in peripheral vision

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, May 2015
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Title
Beauty and cuteness in peripheral vision
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, May 2015
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00566
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Authors

Kana Kuraguchi, Hiroshi Ashida

Abstract

Guo et al. (2011) showed that attractiveness was detectable in peripheral vision. Since there are different types of attractiveness (Rhodes, 2006), we investigated how beauty and cuteness are detected in peripheral vision with a brief presentation. Participants (n = 45) observed two Japanese female faces for 100 ms, then were asked to respond which face was more beautiful (or cuter). The results indicated that both beauty and cuteness were detectable in peripheral vision, but not in the same manner. Discrimination rates for judging beauty were invariant in peripheral and central vision, while discrimination rates for judging cuteness declined in peripheral vision as compared with central vision. This was not explained by lower resolution in peripheral vision. In addition, for male participants, it was more difficult to judge cuteness than beauty in peripheral vision, thus suggesting that gender differences can have a certain effect when judging cuteness. Therefore, central vision might be suitable for judging cuteness while judging beauty might not be affected by either central or peripheral vision. This might be related with the functional difference between beauty and cuteness.

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Unknown 32 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 25%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 13%
Student > Bachelor 4 13%
Researcher 4 13%
Professor 2 6%
Other 4 13%
Unknown 6 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 15 47%
Engineering 2 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 6%
Computer Science 1 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Other 5 16%
Unknown 6 19%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 June 2018.
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