Male or Female? - Influence of Gender Role and Sexual Attraction on Sex Categorization of Faces.

ABSTRACT: The categorization of dominant facial features, such as sex, is a highly relevant function for social interaction. It has been found that attributes of the perceiver, such as their biological sex, influence the perception of sexually dimorphic facial features with women showing higher recognition performance for female faces than men. However, evidence on how aspects closely related to biological sex influence face sex categorization are scarce. Using a previously validated set of sex-morphed facial images (morphed from male to female and vice versa), we aimed to investigate the influence of the participant's gender role identification and sexual orientation on face sex categorization, besides their biological sex. Image ratings, questionnaire data on gender role identification and sexual

SUBMITTER: Luther T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8490621 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature