Langlois+-+Period+2

• Infants stared at the monitor screen featuring two pictures. One attractive, one unattractive. Their preferences were measured by gazing. • The got the faces from a database that were already rated attractive or unattractive. • The babies got breaks. • Supports NATURE
 * Relevant Background Information:**
 * //• There are 4 different mini studies in this one study.//**

•Whether Infants would gaze longer at attractive or unattractive faces. __Study 1:__ 1. Replicate, with a different sample of faces and raters, Langlois finds that adults judge faces to be attractive 2. Investigates whether infants prefer average faces • Adults rate the attractiveness of individual and mathematically average faces __Study 2:__
 * Aim:**

__Study 1:__ 56 undergraduate students (28 men and 28 women) recruited from introductory psychology classes at UT __Study 2:__
 * Participant Group:**

60 healthy full term infants 35 boys and 25 girls Volunteers from the University of Texas at Austin all within 3 weeks of their 6 month birthday

Experiment
 * Research Method:**

Two independent observers watched the babies by a tape so they didn’t know what face the baby was starring at.
 * How was data collected:**

quantitative and qualitative
 * What type of data was collected:**

Procedure: __Study 1:__ 33 slides on a projector screen and judged their facial attractiveness on a 5-point scale. 10 random samples were presented approximately 1 s each before the rating session began to allow the judges to see the range of attractiveness in the sample.

Special equipment / materials

The attractiveness to faces defered with gender, race, and age.
 * Results**

Conclusion

• High degree of control
 * Strengths**

Weaknesses

Very low - it's in a lab.
 * Ecological Validity**

Ethics