„He’s got his father’s nose! “ – Factors involved in kinship – perception M Möller, C-C Carbon |
|---|
Department of General Psychology and Methodology, University of Bamberg, Germany
|
| In the field of face research, only few studies took a close look on kinship-perception. Previous research has shown, that we are able to identify related pairs of faces better than chance, but a lot about the processes and factors involved in detecting kinship is still unknown. We were particularly interested in whether kinship-similarity is influenced by more featural or more holistic aspects of faces. Our participants inspected pairs of unrelated faces which were (a) manipulated so that one single feature (eyes, nose or mouth) was identical in both faces, (b) morphed into one another so that one face was similar to the other in all features and proportions to a certain degree, or (c), as a control condition, not changed at all. When rating the kinship-probability for each pair, holistic as well as featural aspects had a positive effect on the kinship-similarity, but holistic aspects were clearly of stronger relevance than single features. For featural manipulations, identical eyes were the strongest predictor of perceived kinship, followed by the mouth and the nose. Those results are conform to other studies on similarity, recognition as well as on processing onsets of face perception. |
| Up Home |
|---|