Manipulating gaze direction and emotion expression to differentiate between beauty and attractiveness

Diplôme Master Manipulating gaze direction and emotion expression to differentiate between beauty and attractiveness eng 2017 author Jonauskaite Domicele 832754 director Sander David 558712 Attractiveness and beauty have been mainly treated as synonyms in the literature. However, the two aesthetic judgments might reflect different motivations. Attractiveness may relate to a mating drive whereas beauty may relate to a general aesthetic appraisal of the face. The former may be more personal whereas the latter may be more general. In the animal and clinical literature, dissociation between wanting (motivation to engage obtain a reward) and liking (pleasure from reward consumption) has been identified. It is possible that attractiveness may reflect the wanting aspect whereas beauty may reflect the liking aspect of an evaluation of a face. Here, we made the first attempt to dissociate beauty and attractiveness in a healthy population. In particular, gaze direction, head position and smiling have been shown to influence attractiveness. Here, we hypothesised that these social cues would be less influential on beauty judgments compared to attractiveness judgments. We varied gaze direction, head position, and facial expression on computer-modelled male faces and asked 92 young (M = 20.92) heterosexual females to separately rate attractiveness and beauty of these faces... Attractiveness Beauty Faces Emotional expressions Eye gaze direction Dewey 150 Dewey 616.8 Maîtrise universitaire interdisciplinaire en neurosciences 16 Centre interfacultaire de neurosciences 0D9 108 Section de psychologie 71 false 593 Emergence et expression de l'émotion (E3 Lab) 0224423c-335d-477b-bac8-129e8d6d1e19 Master thesis Public MSc_Thesis_Final.pdf 864045 application/pdf openAccess Centres et instituts / Centre interfacultaire de neurosciences Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

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