Baby Schema in Infant Faces Induces Cuteness Perception and Motivation for Caretaking in Adults¶
Glocker, M. L., Langleben, D. D., Ruparel, K., Loughead, J. W., Gur, R. C., & Sachser, N. (2009). Baby Schema in Infant Faces Induces Cuteness Perception and Motivation for Caretaking in Adults. Ethology.
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- . Perceptual expertise — bird, car, radiology, fingerprint, or other categories where dense training may produce relational templates and configuration-sensitive performance. Developmental psychology — tracking when canonical whole-processing advantages and inversion sensitivities emerge. Neuropsychology — dissociating impaired face or whole processing from preserved acuity and local feature recognition. Forensic and interface design — presenting whole faces or coherent configurations when witness or user memory stores relational wholes more effectively than isolated menus of parts. Character and social-cue design — structured facial cue configurations such as baby schema engaging downstream motivational systems
This sourceExperimental evidence that parametrically raising baby-schema proportions in infant photographs increases rated cuteness and self-reported caretaking motivation. The design does not include inversion or scrambling controls, so it does not by itself establish that the effect is configural rather than featural.
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- . Perceptual expertise — bird, car, radiology, fingerprint, or other categories where dense training may produce relational templates and configuration-sensitive performance. Developmental psychology — tracking when canonical whole-processing advantages and inversion sensitivities emerge. Neuropsychology — dissociating impaired face or whole processing from preserved acuity and local feature recognition. Forensic and interface design — presenting whole faces or coherent configurations when witness or user memory stores relational wholes more effectively than isolated menus of parts. Character and social-cue design — structured facial cue configurations such as baby schema engaging downstream motivational systems
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