男性对女性面孔吸引力的认知偏好：来自ERP的证据  

Cognitive Bias Toward Female Facial Attractiveness in Males: Evidences from An ERP Study

作　　者：张妍[1,2] 孔繁昌[1] 陈红[1] 向燕辉[1] 高笑[1] 陈敏燕[1] 

机构地区：[1]西南大学心理学院,认知与人格教育部重点实验室,重庆400715 [2]绵阳师范学院教育科学学院,绵阳621000

出　　处：《心理学报》2010年第11期1060-1072,共13页Acta Psychologica Sinica

基　　金：国家自然科学基金(30870774);211工程国家重点学科建设项目(NSKD08004);教育部新世纪优秀人才支持计划资助项目(NCET-2008-0870)资助

摘　　要：运用事件相关电位（ERPs）技术,采用学习-再认实验任务,探讨了男性对有、无吸引力女性面孔图片进行判断和再认时脑内时程的动态变化。行为数据结果表明,男性对有吸引力女性面孔的反应时更长,再认正确率更高。ERP结果发现,有、无吸引力面孔诱发的ERP早成分和晚成分都存在显著差异,最强效应出现在大脑皮层的中前部。在判断任务和再认任务中,有吸引力的女性面孔都比无吸引力的女性面孔诱发出更大的ERP成分（分别为N300、P350~550ms和P160、N300~500ms、P500~700ms）。结果表明,男性对有吸引力的女性面孔的判断和再认存在偏好。Facial attractiveness is of high importance for human interaction and communication （Joshua, Henderson, Jeremy, Anglin, 2003）. Neuroimaging studies found several brain areas to be differentially responsive to attractive as opposed to unattractive female faces （Aharon et al., 2001; Cloutier, Heatherton, Whalen, Kelley, 2008; Iaria, Fox, Waite, Aharon, Barton, 2008; Ishai, 2007; Kranz Ishai, 2006; Penton-voak, Jacobson, Tribers, 2004; Senior, 2003）. The brain areas responsive to facial attractiveness of potential mates include the superior temporal sulcus （O’ Doherty et al., 2003）, basal ganglia （Aharon et al., 2001） and medial orbitofrontal cortex （Kranz et al., 2006）. However, little is known about the time course of brain responses related to this process. The present study aimed to compare event-related potentials （ERPs） in response to attractive and unattractive female faces in order to determine which time periods were sensitive during judgment and recognition of female facial attractiveness for males. ERPs were used to explore temporal changes of judgment and recognition toward attractive female faces based on a study-recognition experiment paradigm. Data from 13 heterosexual males participants （mean age 22.35 years） were included in the analysis. There are 490 unfamiliar Chinese female pictures from Google. First, 80 college students rated the female pictures as attractive, unattractive and average. In the judgment task, after practice with 10 face pictures participants evaluated 84 attractive faces pictures and 84 unattractive faces pictures presented on computer. In the recognition task, they were asked to identify previously viewed faces from the initial judgment task among attractive, unattractive, and average face pictures. The results showed that attractive and unattractive faces elicited significant differences in early and late ERP components in judgment and recognition tasks. The most enhanced activity was produced in the prefrontal-central cortex. Attractive faces eli

关 键 词：女性面孔 吸引力 ERP 认知偏好 

分 类 号：B842[哲学宗教—基础心理学] B845[哲学宗教—心理学]