Gender Differences in the Effect of Facial Attractiveness on Perception of Time.

ABSTRACT: Time perception plays a fundamental role in human social activities, and it can be influenced in social situations by various factors, including facial attractiveness. However, in the eyes of observers of different genders, the attractiveness of a face varies. The current study aimed to explore whether gender modulates the effect of facial attractiveness on time perception. To account for individual differences in esthetic standards, the critical stimuli presented to each participant were selected from an image pool based on the participant's own attractiveness judgments. In Experiment 1, men and women performed a stimuli selection task followed by a temporal reproduction task to measure their time perception of faces of different attractiveness levels and gender. To control for the potent

SUBMITTER: Tian Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6558225 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature