A Research On The Person Perception Under The Visual-Auditory Integration

Social perception is the first stage of the social cognitive, which people perceive the character of social objective directly through the sensory. For a long time, Social perception is one of the key subject of social cognitive, one of the most important problem needed to be solved is the process of the impress formation to others. Usually, it includes the perceiving of the person’s identity and affective state in the person perception. The paper research shows, in the perception of person’s identity and affective state, it refers to the integration of others’ information both from face and voice.The former research shows that it is also involve in the social perception in the research of whether the face have attractiveness. It plays an important role in the next social cognitive process for the social perception of facial expression and the appearance. Facial attractiveness is the degree of a positive and happy emotion experience, which impel the will that people want to approach the objective person evoked. It signs the age, gender, person identity and affective and other amount of inputs, which play a critical role in the social communication for human. For the voice, it also refers the above function in face. However, in the real daily life, people always perceive the whole attractiveness of the people by the presentation of visual modal and auditory modal inputs at the same time. In the situation of visual---auditory integration, the perception to one people also can be defined as the degree of a positive and happy emotion experience, which impels the will that people want to approach the objective person evoked. In the field of social perception study, the researches are mainly focus on the identity and affective perception in the way of multi-sensory integration, but there is nearly little to test the person attractiveness perception in the way of multi-sensory. The study here would like to test that how facial input and voice inputs are interacted to affect the perception of person attractiveness under the way of present of facial and vocal information integrated at the same time. The research’s results are as follows:(1) Facial and vocal attractiveness is integrated to impact the perception of person attractiveness, in which there is a "Visual Capture" effect.(2) In the perception of person attractiveness, when the information sources of visual modal is not as reliable as auditory modal, the way of perception will turn to auditory modal automatically. It shows that, the way of person attractiveness perception not follows as a rigid style but in a more flexible one, which make the inputs are coded as much efficiency.(3) Gender has a obvious impact on the person attractiveness perception, for women, whatever is the low attractiveness facial inputs or vocal inputs, it will has a lower evaluation for the whole perception than the man, which shows a more significant facial prejudice or vocal prejudice.(4) In the perception of person attractiveness, in the negative vocal emotion, there is a difference between male and female, that is in this situation, whatever there is a high or low attractiveness of face, the female will give a relatively lower evaluation.The research promotes the relative study of multi-sensory as the way of cross-modal in the fields of social perception. It enriches the study to the person perception. Moreover, the study has a high relative with the daily life, for which we can apply the results of study in real life well.