Baby Schema in Infant Faces Induces Cuteness Perception and Motivation for Caretaking in Adults¶
Glocker. (2009). Baby Schema in Infant Faces Induces Cuteness Perception and Motivation for Caretaking in Adults. Ethology.
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- Configural Processing
- . 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.
- . 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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