The effects of image resolution and exposure duration on facial beauty and ugliness evaluationsOSF
The beauty or ugliness of a face is affected by factors such as the resolution of the face image presented on the screen and its exposure duration. The present study investigated the effects of image resolution and exposure duration on the beauty and ugliness evaluations of face images processed wit...
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| description | The beauty or ugliness of a face is affected by factors such as the resolution of the face image presented on the screen and its exposure duration. The present study investigated the effects of image resolution and exposure duration on the beauty and ugliness evaluations of face images processed with down-sampling and Gaussian blurring. We prepared two types of face images with these blur processing treatments and conducted two experiments to evaluate beauty and ugliness perceptions at various exposure durations. The data were analyzed using linear mixed models. We found that in both cases of blurring, the more the blurring, the lower the facial beauty and the higher the ugliness perceived. We also found that the shorter the exposure duration, the higher the facial beauty and the lower the ugliness perceived. These results suggest that a positive bias is likely to occur when sufficient temporal information is unavailable, while a negative bias is more likely when image information is insufficient and there is a limited exposure duration. This highlights the importance of both exposure duration and visual clarity in shaping evaluations of facial beauty and ugliness. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ac961492404842dab012de5280697c6d2025-01-12T05:23:56ZengElsevierActa Psychologica0001-69182025-02-01252104635The effects of image resolution and exposure duration on facial beauty and ugliness evaluationsOSFTakanori Sano0Mika Gondo1Yuna Osaka2Hideaki Kawabata3Graduate School of Sociology, Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8345, Japan; Corresponding author.Faculty of literature, Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8345, JapanFaculty of literature, Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8345, JapanGraduate School of Sociology, Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8345, Japan; Faculty of literature, Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8345, JapanThe beauty or ugliness of a face is affected by factors such as the resolution of the face image presented on the screen and its exposure duration. The present study investigated the effects of image resolution and exposure duration on the beauty and ugliness evaluations of face images processed with down-sampling and Gaussian blurring. We prepared two types of face images with these blur processing treatments and conducted two experiments to evaluate beauty and ugliness perceptions at various exposure durations. The data were analyzed using linear mixed models. We found that in both cases of blurring, the more the blurring, the lower the facial beauty and the higher the ugliness perceived. We also found that the shorter the exposure duration, the higher the facial beauty and the lower the ugliness perceived. These results suggest that a positive bias is likely to occur when sufficient temporal information is unavailable, while a negative bias is more likely when image information is insufficient and there is a limited exposure duration. This highlights the importance of both exposure duration and visual clarity in shaping evaluations of facial beauty and ugliness.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691824005134Image resolutionExposure durationBeauty and uglinessBlurringFacial evaluations |
| spellingShingle | Takanori Sano Mika Gondo Yuna Osaka Hideaki Kawabata The effects of image resolution and exposure duration on facial beauty and ugliness evaluationsOSF Acta Psychologica Image resolution Exposure duration Beauty and ugliness Blurring Facial evaluations |
| title | The effects of image resolution and exposure duration on facial beauty and ugliness evaluationsOSF |
| title_full | The effects of image resolution and exposure duration on facial beauty and ugliness evaluationsOSF |
| title_fullStr | The effects of image resolution and exposure duration on facial beauty and ugliness evaluationsOSF |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effects of image resolution and exposure duration on facial beauty and ugliness evaluationsOSF |
| title_short | The effects of image resolution and exposure duration on facial beauty and ugliness evaluationsOSF |
| title_sort | effects of image resolution and exposure duration on facial beauty and ugliness evaluationsosf |
| topic | Image resolution Exposure duration Beauty and ugliness Blurring Facial evaluations |
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