# @science on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DXYEw1ukv2z
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/64261153-science-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-04-21T02:00:19.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Science 🧬 (@science) — https://gondola.cc/science

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Human infants, just a few days of age, are known to prefer attractive human faces. We examined whether this preference is human-specific. Three- to 4-month-olds preferred attractive over unattractive domestic and wild cat (tiger) faces (Experiments 1 and 3). The preference was not observed when the faces were inverted, suggesting that it did not arise from low-level image differences (Experiments 2 and 3).⁠
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In addition, the spontaneous preference for attractive tiger faces influenced performance in a recognition memory task involving attractive versus unattractive tiger face pairings (Experiment 4). The findings suggest that infant preference for attractive faces reflects the activity of general processing mechanisms rather than a specific adaptation to mate choice.⁠
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