Influence of gender membership on sequential decisions of face attractiveness

Kondo, Atsushi; Takahashi, Kohske; Watanabe, Katsumi

doi:10.3758/s13414-013-0533-y

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“…The first result ( β 2 ) parallels the assimilative bias seen by Kondo et al (2012; 2013), but extends it by showing that this bias can be linked to the previous response rather than to the attractiveness of the previous face. Notably, this response bias occurs across judgment types: hair darkness ratings influence attractiveness ratings.…”

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“…if the previous face was very attractive, the current face will be rated as less attractive than usual) (Cogan et al, 2013; Wedell et al, 1987), other studies report an assimilative effect (i.e. if the previous face was very attractive, the current face will be rated as more attractive than usual) (Kondo et al., 2012; Kondo, Takahashi, & Watanabe, 2013). In this paper, we make use of a novel experimental paradigm to resolve this apparent contradiction.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Simultaneous perceptual and response biases on sequential face attractiveness judgments.

Pegors¹,

Mattar

Bryan

et al. 2015

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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Face attractiveness is a social characteristic that we often use to make first-pass judgments about the people around us. However, these judgments are highly influenced by our surrounding social world, and researchers still understand little about the mechanisms underlying these influences. In a series of three experiments, we used a novel sequential rating paradigm that enabled us to measure biases on attractiveness judgments from the previous face and the previous rating. Our results revealed two simultaneous and opposing influences on face attractiveness judgments that arise from our past experience of faces: a response bias in which attractiveness ratings shift towards a previously given rating, and a stimulus bias in which attractiveness ratings shift away from the mean attractiveness of the previous face. Furthermore, we provide evidence that the contrastive stimulus bias (but not the assimilative response bias) is strengthened by increasing the duration of the previous stimulus, suggesting an underlying perceptual mechanism. These results demonstrate that judgments of face attractiveness are influenced by information from our evaluative and perceptual history and that these influences have measurable behavioral effects over the course of just a few seconds.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Simultaneous perceptual and response biases on sequential face attractiveness judgments.

Pegors¹,

Mattar

Bryan

et al. 2015

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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“…Previous studies have suggested a positive correlation between subjects' attractiveness ratings of the presented facial image and the previous facial image (Kondo et al, 2012, 2013; Kramer, Jones, & Sharma, 2013). This positive correlation could be the result of sequentially dependent attractiveness perception or sequentially dependent response bias (Pegors et al, 2015).…”

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Serial dependence in the perception of attractiveness

2016

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The perception of attractiveness is essential for choices of food, object, and mate preference. Like perception of other visual features, perception of attractiveness is stable despite constant changes of image properties due to factors like occlusion, visual noise, and eye movements. Recent results demonstrate that perception of low-level stimulus features and even more complex attributes like human identity are biased towards recent percepts. This effect is often called serial dependence. Some recent studies have suggested that serial dependence also exists for perceived facial attractiveness, though there is also concern that the reported effects are due to response bias. Here we used an attractiveness-rating task to test the existence of serial dependence in perceived facial attractiveness. Our results demonstrate that perceived face attractiveness was pulled by the attractiveness level of facial images encountered up to 6 s prior. This effect was not due to response bias and did not rely on the previous motor response. This perceptual pull increased as the difference in attractiveness between previous and current stimuli increased. Our results reconcile previously conflicting findings and extend previous work, demonstrating that sequential dependence in perception operates across different levels of visual analysis, even at the highest levels of perceptual interpretation.

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“…Whether and how the visual system promotes perceived object continuity over time remains an important question. Recent experiments have demonstrated a serial dependence in perception: a bias in the perceived identity of objects toward similar objects seen in the last few seconds (Cicchini, Anobile, & Burr, 2014; Fischer & Whitney, 2014; Kondo, Takahashi, & Watanabe, 2012, 2013; Liberman, Fischer, & Whitney, 2014; Taubert, Van der Burg, & Alais, 2016b). Intriguingly, visual processing may mirror the temporal regularity of objects in the physical world through a perceptual bias that promotes stability of identity perception.…”

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Serial dependence promotes object stability during occlusion

2016

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Object identities somehow appear stable and continuous over time despite eye movements, disruptions in visibility, and constantly changing visual input. Recent results have demonstrated that the perception of orientation, numerosity, and facial identity is systematically biased (i.e., pulled) toward visual input from the recent past. The spatial region over which current orientations or face identities are pulled by previous orientations or identities, respectively, is known as the continuity field, which is temporally tuned over the past several seconds (Fischer & Whitney, 2014). This perceptual pull could contribute to the visual stability of objects over short time periods, but does it also address how perceptual stability occurs during visual discontinuities? Here, we tested whether the continuity field helps maintain perceived object identity during occlusion. Specifically, we found that the perception of an oriented Gabor that emerged from behind an occluder was significantly pulled toward the random (and unrelated) orientation of the Gabor that was seen entering the occluder. Importantly, this serial dependence was stronger for predictable, continuously moving trajectories, compared to unpredictable ones or static displacements. This result suggests that our visual system takes advantage of expectations about a stable world, helping to maintain perceived object continuity despite interrupted visibility.

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Influence of gender membership on sequential decisions of face attractiveness

Cited by 31 publications

References 25 publications

Simultaneous perceptual and response biases on sequential face attractiveness judgments.

Simultaneous perceptual and response biases on sequential face attractiveness judgments.

Serial dependence in the perception of attractiveness

Serial dependence promotes object stability during occlusion

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