Kin recognition signals in adult faces

Lisa M. DeBruine; Finlay G. Smith; Benedict C. Jones; S. Craig Roberts; Marion Petrie; Tim D. Spector

doi:10.1016/j.visres.2008.09.025

Kin recognition signals in adult faces

Lisa M. DeBruine^*, Finlay G. Smith, Benedict C. Jones, S. Craig Roberts, Marion Petrie, Tim D. Spector

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Psychology

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Abstract

Maloney and Dal Martello [Maloney, L.T., Dal Martello, M.F. (2006). Kin recognition and the perceived facial similarity of children. Journal of Vision, 6(10), 1047-1056. http://www.journalofvision.org/6/10/4/] reported that similarity ratings of pairs of related and unrelated children were almost perfect predictors of the probability that those children were judged as being siblings by a second group of observers. Surprisingly, similarity ratings were poor predictors of whether a pair was same-sex or opposite-sex, suggesting that people ignore cues that are uninformative about kinship when making similarity judgments of faces. Using adult sibling faces, we find that similarity ratings for same-sex pairs were significantly higher than for opposite-sex pairs, suggesting that similarity judgments of adult faces are not entirely synonymous with kinship judgments.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	38-43
Number of pages	6
Journal	Vision Research
Volume	49
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2008.09.025
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2009

Funding

We thank L. Maloney and M.F. Dal Martello for their very helpful comments and assistance with analysis. The Dept. of Twin Research receives funding from the Wellcome Trust and the NIHR Biomed Research center at Guys and St. Thomas’ and KCL.

Keywords

face perception
kin recognition
resemblance
similarity

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