Are human faces more attractive with glasses?

Abstract

This article investigates whether a glasses frame, which is symmetrically designed, can be used as an accessory to enhance an individual's facial attractiveness and the affective responses. We carry out a series of experiments using 16 prototypical glasses frame, each of which consists of different combinations of design features. The frames are fitted on one male and one female faces selected from the facial portraits of 200 university students. The participants rate the faces with and without wearing the glasses frames with the 7-point Likert scales on the included perceptual measures. The results show that wearing the glasses frames does generally improve facial symmetry. However, the facial attractiveness is not enhanced accordingly. Some designs such as the glasses frames with smaller rims have less impact on facial attractiveness than those with larger rims. To conclude, artificially improving the facial attractiveness requires more than just an enhancement of facial symmetry.

本研究調查了是否兩邊對稱的眼鏡鏡框能被用來作為提升人臉吸引力及帶給他人的情感反應的配件。 我們使用了16個不同複合設計因子的鏡框原型進行了一系列實驗 ， 這些鏡框被由200位大學在學生中挑選出的一位男性及一位女性配戴 ， 受測者針對吸引力比較有戴及未戴眼鏡的臉部差別作7分李克特評估 ， 結果顯示戴上眼鏡可使臉部看起來較為對稱 ， 然而 ， 臉部的吸引力並未因此提升 ， 部份的鏡框設計因子對人臉吸引力有不同影響如 ： 大鏡框較小鏡框較能增進吸引力。 最後 ， 本研究歸納出以配戴眼鏡的人工方式來增進臉部的吸引力需要考慮更多除了臉部對稱外的因子。

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Keywords:

• facial attractiveness
• emotional design
• affective
• symmetry
• glasses

Keywords:

• 關鍵詞 ： 臉部吸引力 ， 情感設計 ， 吸引力 ， 對稱 ， 眼鏡

Notes

(*聯絡人 ： [email protected])