Abstract (eng)
The aim of the present study was to explore if there are differences between heterosexual and homosexual persons regarding the rating of and looks at different attractive faces in photographs of real-world scenes. Participants were five heterosexual men, five heterosexual women, five homosexual men and five homosexual women. They looked at and rated faces in scenes, in which two persons (two men, two women, one man and one woman) were displayed, whose faces were manipulated in that way, that they were attractive or unattractive. One face in each scene was attractive, the other one was unattractive. During scene viewing eye movements were recorded. The experiment showed that attractive faces were rated more attractive than the unattractive ones. Female faces were rated better than male faces. Heterosexual participants rated all faces, regardless of their attractiveness, better than homosexual participants. The results of the eye movements showed, that attractive faces were fixated more often and longer than unattractive faces.