TY - JOUR
T1 - HOW MODERN HUMANS SEE ANCIENT FIGURE FACES
T2 - THE DIFFERENTIAL IMPRESSIONS AND PERCEIVED EXPRESSIONS FROM CLAY FIGURE FACES FROM PREHISTORIC AND PROTOHISTORIC JAPAN
AU - Kawabata, Hideaki
AU - Shiba, Reiko
AU - Matsumoto, Naoko
AU - Matsugi, Takehiko
AU - Janik, Liliana
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the JSPS KAKENHI, Grant Numbers JP19H05733 and JP19H05736. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Hideaki Kawabata, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Letters, Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8345, Japan (e-mail: kawabata@flet.keio.ac.jp).
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Anthropomorphic artifacts have unique characteristics, as they are closely related to social and technical cognition and contain complex information. However, their meanings can be elusive. The present study aimed to examine how modern Japanese people perceive the faces of Japanese prehistoric (13,000-800 cal BC) and protohistoric (AD 250-600) anthropomorphic artifacts by focusing on the facial expressions and impressions of clay figure faces. The study included 75 Japanese participants and 131 figure faces from three historical periods. The results showed that participants perceived the prehistoric and protohistoric facial expressions differently (as being happier, sadder, and less surprised), depending on the period they were created in. We examined the relationships between impressions and perceived expressions of the figure faces, and found that faces became more complicated due to the introduction of facial morphometric features. The results may be applicable to understanding the variation in Japanese figures, especially the faces.
AB - Anthropomorphic artifacts have unique characteristics, as they are closely related to social and technical cognition and contain complex information. However, their meanings can be elusive. The present study aimed to examine how modern Japanese people perceive the faces of Japanese prehistoric (13,000-800 cal BC) and protohistoric (AD 250-600) anthropomorphic artifacts by focusing on the facial expressions and impressions of clay figure faces. The study included 75 Japanese participants and 131 figure faces from three historical periods. The results showed that participants perceived the prehistoric and protohistoric facial expressions differently (as being happier, sadder, and less surprised), depending on the period they were created in. We examined the relationships between impressions and perceived expressions of the figure faces, and found that faces became more complicated due to the introduction of facial morphometric features. The results may be applicable to understanding the variation in Japanese figures, especially the faces.
KW - Anthropomorphic artifacts
KW - Clay figures
KW - Facial expressions
KW - Impression
KW - Online experiment
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U2 - 10.2117/psysoc.2021-B019
DO - 10.2117/psysoc.2021-B019
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85125465073
VL - 63
SP - 116
EP - 136
JO - Psychologia
JF - Psychologia
SN - 0033-2852
IS - 2
ER -