A beautiful face is good when we're judged by others, a moral character is better.

Julia Baum, Rasha Abdel Rahman
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Abstract

Moral beauty, reflected in one's actions, and facial beauty both affect how we're judged. Here, we investigated how moral and facial beauty interactively affect social judgments and emotional responses, employing event-related brain potentials. Participants (all female) associated positive, neutral, or negative verbal information with faces scoring high or low on attractiveness and performed ratings of the faces as manipulation checks. In a separate test phase, the faces were presented again, and participants made valenced social judgments of the persons. Results show a dominance of moral beauty in valenced social judgments as well as ERPs related to reflexive and evaluative emotional responses (early posterior negativity, EPN, late positive potential, LPP), whereas facial attractiveness mattered little. In contrast, facial attractiveness affected visual processing (N170). Similarly, relatively shallow impressions of attractiveness and likability that require no knowledge about the person were influenced by both facial attractiveness and social-emotional information. This pattern of dominant effects of social-emotional information regardless of attractiveness shows that when it comes to our emotional responses and social judgments, moral beauty is what matters most, even in the face of physical beauty.

别人评价我们时,漂亮的脸蛋是好的,但品德更好。
道德美(反映在一个人的行为中)和面部美都会影响人们对我们的评价。在这里,我们利用事件相关脑电位研究了道德美和面部美如何交互影响社会判断和情绪反应。参与者(均为女性)将正面、中性或负面的语言信息与吸引力高或低的面孔联系起来,并对这些面孔进行评分作为操纵检查。在另一个测试阶段,这些面孔再次出现,参与者对这些人进行社会价值判断。结果显示,道德美在有价值的社会判断以及与反射性和评价性情绪反应相关的ERPs(早期后负性,EPN,晚期正电位,LPP)中占主导地位,而面部吸引力则影响甚微。相反,面部吸引力会影响视觉处理(N170)。同样,对吸引力和好感度的相对肤浅的印象也同时受到面部吸引力和社会情感信息的影响。这种无论吸引力如何,社会情感信息都起主导作用的模式表明,当涉及到我们的情感反应和社会判断时,道德美才是最重要的,即使面对的是外表美。
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