Reactions to children's faces: Males are more affected by resemblance than females are, and so are their brains

By S. Platek, D. Raines, G. G. Gallup, F. Mohamed, J. W. Thomson, Thomas E. Myers, I. Panyavin, Sarah L. Levin, Jennifer A. Davis, Ludivine C. M. Fonteyn and 1 more. 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Evolutionary neuromarketing: darwinizing the neuroimaging paradigm for consumer behavior (2008, background): “Kin recognition has been demonstrated using fMRI to show that human males use facial resemblance to detect relatedness, with particular recruitment of the left superior, middle, and medial frontal gyri (Platek et al., 2004).”
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, unknown): “…of specific brain areas in men, when confronted with self-facial resemblance, has been observed in a sample of young men who were likely to be nonfathers (undergraduate students), suggesting that the sensitivity to facial resemblance is already present before fatherhood (Platek et al. 2004, 2005).”