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Beyond the Beauty of Occlusion: Medical Masks Increase Facial Attractiveness More than Other Face Coverings

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العنوان: Beyond the Beauty of Occlusion: Medical Masks Increase Facial Attractiveness More than Other Face Coverings
اللغة: English
المؤلفون: Hies, Oliver, Lewis, Michael B. (ORCID 0000-0002-5735-5318)
المصدر: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. 2022 7.
الإتاحة: Springer. Available from: Springer Nature. One New York Plaza, Suite 4600, New York, NY 10004. Tel: 800-777-4643; Tel: 212-460-1500; Fax: 212-460-1700; e-mail: customerservice@springernature.com; Web site: https://link.springer.com/
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 6
تاريخ النشر: 2022
نوع الوثيقة: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Hygiene, Disease Control, Aesthetics, Human Body, Social Desirability
DOI: 10.1186/s41235-021-00351-9
تدمد: 2365-7464
مستخلص: The sanitary-mask effect (Miyazaki and Kawahara in Jpn Psychol Res 58(3):261-272, 2016) is the finding that medical face masks prompt an image of disease and thus result in lower ratings of facial attractiveness of the wearer. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, medical masks have been found to increase attractiveness (Patel et al. in Plast Reconstruct Surg Glob Open 8(8), 2020) although this could have been a general effect of occlusion. To further explore this issue, female participants were presented with a series of male faces of low or high attractiveness that were occluded with a medical mask, cloth mask, book or not occluded and asked to rate them on attractiveness. The results show that faces were considered as most attractive when covered by medical masks and significantly more attractive when occluded with cloth masks than when not occluded. Contrary to expectation, base attractiveness did not interact with the type of occlusion, suggesting that this is not simply due to occlusion of negative features. The present findings are contrary to the sanitary-mask effect and explanations in terms of social desirability, and the association of medical masks with caregiving professions is explored.
Abstractor: As Provided
ملاحظات: https://osf.io/fgp3j
Entry Date: 2022
رقم الأكسشن: EJ1322158
قاعدة البيانات: ERIC
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تدمد:2365-7464
DOI:10.1186/s41235-021-00351-9