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    "title": "Cultural Variability in Baby-Schema Perception: Insights on Face Perception from Two Small-Scale Malaysian and An Urban German Community",
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    "abstract": "Baby-schema is a social perception phenomenon describing how infantile facial features and their abstract representation in animals and objects automatically engage human caregiving responses. While often considered universal, its cross-cultural variability remains untested outside large-scale industrialized communities. Does cultural background and visual experience influence perceptual and behavioral biases of baby-schema?\n\nWe examined responses to manipulated infant faces in two Indigenous Malaysian (Batek, Temiar) and an urban German community. In a pre-registered eye-tracking task, participants viewed human and cat face pairs differing only in baby-schema-level (high vs. low) and completed a pre-registered binary forced-choice task. Germans selected high baby-schema faces as more likable, cuter, younger, and healthier, while small-scale communities showed attenuated or absent effects and were less sensitive to baby-schema manipulations in a control discrimination-task. Eye-tracking showed cultural differences in gaze patterns that were not meaningfully influenced by species or baby-schema-level. A follow-up study will investigate effects of group membership.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Face Processing; Social cognition; Cross-cultural analysis; Eye tracking; Field studies"
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    ],
    "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation",
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        {
            "first_name": "Marie",
            "middle_name": "M. G.",
            "last_name": "Michael",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology",
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        {
            "first_name": "Daniel",
            "middle_name": "Benjamin Moritz",
            "last_name": "Haun",
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            "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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