Modeling the Relation between Skin Attractiveness and Physical Characteristics

Tobitani, Kensuke; Matsumoto, Tatsuya; Tani, Yasuhiro; Nagata, Noriko

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“…Broadly speaking, rating experiments using manipulated facial images showed strong associations [ 2 , 3 , 12 , 19 , 20 , 58 ] between skin coloration and subjective ratings of health and attractiveness. While color manipulation of the facial images has the advantage of dissociating the role of skin color cues from facial shape cues, they may not reflect evolutionary significant color changes (as discussed above), and recent studies employing natural, non-manipulated images [ 8 – 11 , 43 ] or plausible physics-based skin image manipulations [ 59 , 60 ] reported much weaker associations between skin color and healthiness and attractiveness, suggesting that the former studies may have led to an overestimation of the role of skin color for health and attractiveness, particularly for associations with facial redness. Jones [ 11 ] concluded that perceived health and attractiveness relies almost exclusively on facial shape features with mean facial color playing a minor role.…”

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“…Jones [ 11 ] concluded that perceived health and attractiveness relies almost exclusively on facial shape features with mean facial color playing a minor role. To fully characterize the differential contributions of facial shape, average skin color and skin homogeneity requires all features to be manipulated independently, but within an evolutionary meaningful parameter space, ideally using a realistic skin model based on physical parameters including chromophore distribution and magnitude [ 59 ], blood oxygenation, skin moisture, translucency, sub-surface skin scatter, all of which affect skin appearance and therefore potentially provide potential cues to healthiness, attractiveness, and youthfulness.…”

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Skin coloration is a culturally-specific cue for attractiveness, healthiness, and youthfulness in observers of Chinese and western European descent

Yang

Xiao

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Facial skin coloration signals information about an individual and plays an important role in social interactions and mate choice, due its putative association with health, attractiveness, and age. Whether skin coloration as an evolutionary significant cue is universal or specific to a particular culture is unclear and current evidence on the universality of skin color as a cue to health and attractiveness are equivocal. The current study used 80 calibrated, high-resolution, non-manipulated images of real human faces, either of Chinese or western European descent, which were rated in terms of attractiveness, healthiness, and perceived age by 44 observers, 22 western European (13 male; mean age ± SD = 24.27 ± 5.30) and 22 Chinese (7 male; mean age ± SD = 26.05 ± 3.96) observers. To elucidate the associations between skin coloration and these perceptual ratings and whether these associations are modulated by observer or image ethnicity, a linear mixed-effect model was setup with skin lightness (L*; CIELAB), redness (a*) and yellowness (b*), observer and image ethnicity as independent variables and perceived attractiveness, healthiness, and estimated age as dependent variables. We found robust positive associations between facial skin lightness (L*) and attractiveness, healthiness, and youthfulness, but only when Chinese observers judge facial images of their own ethnicity. Observers of European descent, on the other hand, associated an increase in yellowness(b*) with greater attractiveness and healthiness in Chinese facial images. We find no evidence that facial redness is positively associated with these attributes; instead, an increase in redness (a*) is associated with an increase in the estimated age of European facial images. We conclude that observers of both ethnicities make use of skin color and lightness to rate attractiveness, healthiness, and perceived age, but to a lesser degree than previously thought. Furthermore, these coloration cues are not universal and are utilized differently within the Chinese and western European ethnic groups. Our study adds to the growing body of work demonstrating the importance of skin color manipulations within an evolutionary meaningful parameter space, ideally using realistic skin models based on physical parameters.

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Skin coloration is a culturally-specific cue for attractiveness, healthiness, and youthfulness in observers of Chinese and western European descent

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Xiao

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“…For a simple impression, one directly estimates the impression from physical features. On the other hand, for a complex impression, one estimates the impression through the estimation of simpler impressions [5][6][7]. The kansei engineering approach has been successfully applied in various design domains.…”

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A Quantification Method of Composite Impression of Products by Externalized Evaluation Words of the Appraisal Dictionary with Review Text Data

Hashimoto

Yamada

Nagata

2019

IJAE

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To make users feel a specific impression, a number of studies have provided a way to estimate product impressions with physical features. Although the methodologies of these studies are useful in a wide range of areas, they require a large number of evaluation experiments to reveal the relation between them, and their costs are very high. To solve them, we proposed a method to score each product on the important impression of its domains. This consists of categorizing evaluation terms into internalized and externalized evaluation by using the appraisal dictionary, discovering the important impressions by using only externalized evaluations, and conclusively scoring these product impressions numerically from the term-score and affinity of words. The result of the verification experiment indicated that the obtained scores are valid in terms of their correlations with people's evaluation.

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“…Broadly speaking, rating experiments using manipulated facial images showed strong associations [2,3,12,19,20,58] between skin coloration and subjective ratings of health and attractiveness. While color manipulation of the facial images has the advantage of dissociating the role of skin color cues from facial shape cues, they may not reflect evolutionary significant color changes (as discussed above), and recent studies employing natural, non-manipulated images [8][9][10][11]43] or plausible physics-based skin image manipulations [59,60] reported much weaker associations between skin color and healthiness and attractiveness, suggesting that the former studies may have led to an overestimation of the role of skin color for health and attractiveness, particularly for associations with facial redness. Jones [11] concluded that perceived health and attractiveness relies almost exclusively on facial shape features with mean facial color playing a minor role.…”

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Modeling the Relation between Skin Attractiveness and Physical Characteristics

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Skin coloration is a culturally-specific cue for attractiveness, healthiness, and youthfulness in observers of Chinese and western European descent

Skin coloration is a culturally-specific cue for attractiveness, healthiness, and youthfulness in observers of Chinese and western European descent

A Quantification Method of Composite Impression of Products by Externalized Evaluation Words of the Appraisal Dictionary with Review Text Data

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