A research group led by Professor Hiroshi Iritono of the Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University has clarified that the cuteness of Japanese babies is that the lower half of the face has tight eyes and the entire face is rounded. ..
According to Osaka University, Professor Nittono and his colleagues asked parents to provide 6 facial photographs of 80-month-old babies, and 20 Japanese men and women between the ages of 69 and 200 evaluated their cuteness on a 7-point scale. received.From there, the top 10 and bottom 10 scores were selected, and the faces of each of the 10 people were combined to create a typical cute face and a face that was not.
As a result, it was found that the lower half of the face had tight eyes, and the rounded face made me feel cute.This existed as an objective feature apart from personal taste.However, younger men tended to be less likely to recognize prettiness than women and middle-aged men.
About 80 years ago, Austrian ethologist Dr. Konrad Lawrence discovered that humans find cuteness for certain physical features and named it Baby Schema.To confirm this theory, studies using facial photographs of white babies have been conducted in various places, but no studies have been conducted using facial photographs of Japanese babies.
Paper information:[Frontiers in Psychology] Creation and Validation of the Japanese Cute Infant Face (JCIF) Dataset
