Preference for attractive faces is species-specific.
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Preference for attractive faces in human infants extends beyond conspecifics.
Human infants, just a few days of age, are known to prefer attractive human faces. We examined whether this preference is human-specific. Three- to 4-month-olds preferred attractive over unattractive domestic and wild cat (tiger) faces (Experiments 1 and 3). The preference was not observed when the faces were inverted, suggesting that it did not arise from low-level image differences (Experimen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Comparative Psychology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1939-2087,0735-7036
DOI: 10.1037/com0000148