How Beauty Determines Gaze! Facial Attractiveness and Gaze Duration in Images of Real World Scenes
- Author(s)
- Helmut Leder, Aleksandra Mitrovic, Jürgen Goller
- 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.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology
- Journal
- i-Perception
- Volume
- 7
- No. of pages
- 12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669516664355
- Publication date
- 08-2016
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 501001 General psychology
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Sensory Systems, Ophthalmology
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/how-beauty-determines-gaze-facial-attractiveness-and-gaze-duration-in-images-of-real-world-scenes(dd58c3f6-f4df-4a26-b378-bbcee437c1fa).html