面孔吸引力对注意资源分配的影响:进化动机的调节作用

Influence of facial attractiveness on the allocation of attentional resources:Moderating effect of evolutionary motivations

面孔吸引力被认为能够影响注意资源的分配。然而,对于面孔吸引力影响注意资源分配的具体机制目前仍不明确。本研究想探究面孔吸引力对两种注意过程的影响:注意捕获和注意粘附。注意粘附指的是将注意转移的困难,而注意捕获指的是注意的初始定向过程。本研究会采用不同的视觉搜索范式来测量面孔吸引力对这两种不同的注意过程的影响,尤其是在注意捕获中又区分了自上而下和自下而上两种注意捕获。并且因为面孔吸引力的进化意义,本研究还会考察在不同的进化动机状态下(自我保护和择偶动机)面孔吸引力对注意的影响。

Improving facial attractiveness does help to attract attentional resources.However,the specific mechanisms how facial attractiveness affects the allocation of attentional resources remain unclear.The present study tries to investigate the effects of facial attractiveness on two types of processes:attention adhesion and attention capture.Attention adhesion refers to the difficulty of shifting attention away from the target,whereas attention capture refers to the process of the initial orientation of attention toward the target.The present study will use different visual search paradigms to measure the effects of facial attractiveness on these two different attentional processes.In particular,the current study will also distinguish top-down and bottom-up attention capture.In addition,because of the evolutionary significance of facial attractiveness,this study will test the effects of facial attractiveness on the allocation of attentional resources when different motivational states(i.e.,mating motivation and self-protection motivation)are activated.