Resemblance to self increases the appeal of child faces to both men and women

By L. DeBruine. 2004

129 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Marketing

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Mark Schaller
2. L. Sugiyama
3. Justin H. Park
4. M. van Vugt
5. A. Alvergne

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Mark Schaller
2. Justin H. Park
3. M. van Vugt
4. L. Sugiyama
5. Damian R. Murray
6. D. Kenrick
7. Steven L. Neuberg
8. C. Crandall

In Marketing

1. Mark Schaller
2. L. Sugiyama
3. Justin H. Park
4. M. van Vugt

Citations in the corpus

• Does attitude similarity serve as a heuristic cue for kinship? Evidence of an implicit cognitive association (2005, background): “This phenomenon generalizes to nonkin as well: Adults report greater willingness to assist unrelated children who happen to have facial features in common with their own (DeBruine, 2004; Platek, Burch, Panyavin, Wasserman, & Gallup, 2002; Platek et al., 2003).”
• Psychology of Human Kin Recognition: Heuristic Cues, Erroneous Inferences, and Their Implications (2008, background): “Furthermore, people report greater willingness to assist unrelated children whose faces have been experimentally manipulated to resemble their own (DeBruine, 2004; Platek, Burch, Panyavin, Wasserman, & Gallup, 2002; Platek et al., 2003, 2004).”
• Father-offspring resemblance predicts paternal investment in humans (2009, background): “By manipulating pictures of faces, different studies have shown that self-referent facial phenotype influences either paternal but not maternal decisions of investment (Platek et al. 2002, 2003), or maternal but not paternal decisions of investment (Bressan et al., in press) or both ( DeBruine 2004 ”
• Physical Attractiveness in Adaptationist Perspective. (2015, methodology): “In a similar study using color photographs, Debruine (2004) found that both men and women used facial resemblance in investment decisions, while Apicella and Marlowe (2004) found that men self-reported greater investment in their children when they thought their children bore more resemblance to…”