APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Worse Than You Think: People Present a Positivity Bias When Perceiving Human Faces with Missing Details
- Orghian Diana
Harvard University - Orghian Diana
Universidade de Lisboa - Hidalgo Cesar
MIT, Media Lab
Abstract
This research shows how people’s perception of incomplete faces is positively biased. Participants judged attractiveness of people in unmodified photos and in smaller, blurred or incomplete photos. Our conclusion is that participants find more attractive the people in the modified photos that the same people in the original photos.
Social Interpersonal Relationships
