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SUBMITTER: Rennels JL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4678036 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rennels Jennifer L JL Kayl Andrea J AJ Langlois Judith H JH Davis Rachel E RE Orlewicz Mateusz M
Journal of experimental child psychology 20151106
Infants typically have a preponderance of experience with females, resulting in visual preferences for female faces, particularly high attractive females, and in better categorization of female relative to male faces. We examined whether these abilities generalized to infants' visual preferences for and categorization of perceptually similar male faces (i.e., low masculine males). We found that 12-month-olds visually preferred high attractive relative to low attractive male faces within low masc ...[more]