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Influence of psychological and emotional features on anthropologic and aesthetic face analysis based on the first impression of men’s and women’s appearance

Blokhina E.A. (1), Shpak L.Y. (2), Negasheva M.A. (1)

1) Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology, Department of Anthropology, Leninskie Gory, 1(12), Moscow, 119234, Russia; 2) Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia

Blokhina Elizaveta A.; ORCID: 0000-0001-5599-8451; scanpattern@gmail.com; Shpak Larisa Y.; PhD; ORCID: 0000-0002-6936-9426; larusparus@mail.ru; Negasheva Marina A.; professor, D.Sc; ORCID: 0000-0002-7572-4316; negasheva@mail.ru.

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to study anthropoaesthetic assessment of the appearance of unfamiliar people demonstrated on static (photo) and dynamic (video) images, based on the first impression given by men and women. Material and methods. The experiment involved 65 men and women aged from 19 to 26 (all people surveyed are Russians who were born and lived in Moscow and were studying in universities of Moscow at the time of the experiment). The experimental part of the work includes 3 stages: anthropoaesthetic polling (partly according the methodology of N.I. Khaldeeva); survey anthropoaesthetic analysis of the first impression using static (photo) and dynamic (6 seconds video without sound) portraits of 22 people (called “stimuli”); study of the participants’ temperament. The questionnaire of B.N. Smirnov (extraversion – introversion, emotional excitability – emotional stability, rigidity – plasticity, fast – slow rate of reactions) was used to get an assessment of some polar properties of participants’ temperament. Results. The total number of assessments for 22 photo-stimuli for all participants was 1418. The results of the first impression’s analysis, illustrating the first acquaintance in social networks, showed that women are characterized by greater selectivity in anthropological and aesthetic characteristics of the face, compared with men. The results of comparing the analysis of the first impression by video images with the psychological distribution of participants by some individuals’ psychodynamic features were reliable; in cases with a well-defined temperament property of “high plasticity” and “high emotionality”, the have variation in ratings in more than 50% of the cases. The highest stability of ratings after viewing photo, video stimuli was found in the group of respondents with emotional stability (57%) and the group of subjects with high rigidity (55%). Conclusion. Stable interconnections between participants’ psychodynamic features and their anthropoaesthetic estimations of stimuli of photo and video material were found.

Keywords

anthropoaesthetic; face perception; psychological features; emotional features; psychodynamic properties of the personality; static and dynamic portraits; photo and video images; structure of temperament

DOI: 10.32521/2074-8132.2020.4.048-056

Цит.: Blokhina E.A., Shpak L.Y., Negasheva M.A. Influence of psychological and emotional features on anthropologic and aesthetic face analysis based on the first impression of men’s and women’s appearance // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2020; 4/2020; с. 48-56