Female face preference in 4-month-olds: The importance of hairline |
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| Affiliation: | 1. LPNC (CNRS UMR 5105) – Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France;2. Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK;3. Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Delaware, USA;4. Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada;1. Children''s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States;2. Women, Children and Family Health Science, College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States;3. Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States;1. CLLE-LTC (Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie—Laboratoire Travail & Cognition)—UMR 5263, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France;2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l’Asie Orientale—UMR 8563, Paris, France;3. Faculty of Human-Environmental Studies, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan;4. InterPsy Laboratory (E.A. 4432), University of Lorraine, (Nancy 2), France;1. University of Münster, Münster, Germany;2. Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany;1. Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway;2. National Network for Infant Mental Health in Norway, The Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Eastern and Southern Norway, Norway;3. The Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Eastern and Southern Norway, Norway;4. Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Norway |
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| Abstract: | At 3–4 months of age, infants respond to gender information in human faces. Specifically, young infants display a visual preference toward female over male faces. In three experiments, using a visual preference task, we investigated the role of hairline information in this bias. In Experiment 1, we presented male and female composite faces with similar hairstyles to 4-month-olds and observed a preference for female faces. In Experiment 2, the faces were presented, but in this instance, without hairline cues, and the preference was eliminated. In Experiment 3, using the same cropping to eliminate hairline cues, but with feminized female faces and masculinized male faces, infants’ preference toward female faces was still not in evidence. The findings show that hairline information is important in young infants’ preferential orientation toward female faces. |
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| Keywords: | Infant Face Gender Visual preference |
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