Did you find people more attractive during the pandemic? This could be why.
Another study of Chinese participants reached a similar conclusion as above but framed their findings with a different theory.involving 440 Chinese participants, face masks enhanced the appearance of average looking employees, thus leading to greater customer satisfaction. However, face masks did not affect the attractiveness of good-looking male employees, and in fact, lowered the attractiveness of good-looking female employees .
8. The Moderate Interpolation Hypothesis: We make templates of moderate attractiveness for faces that we often see in real life., or the idea that rather than filling in the blanks of a face with a positive or ideal image, people may see the rest of the face as moderate in attractiveness. To test this question, 156 Japanese students rated images of own-and other-ethnicity faces that were masked or unmasked.
Images were then rated by six judges. Results indicated that masking decreased perceptions of age by 6% and wrinkles by 10%. However, younger patients did not appear younger in a mask. The researchers did not offer an explanation for the effect of age, however, it is possible that when we are relatively young, indicators of aging on the lower face are more subtle.
Although these studies identified different potential mechanisms for the beauty-enhancing effects of masks, the message is clear. At this time, masks rarely decrease attractiveness, except in the case of very attractive faces . Perhaps participants in
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