College Students’ Mating Preferences Was Effected By Facial Parents-Resemblance:Behavioral And ERP Evidence

Mating preferences is that people want to find a partner with certain conditions. Faces are important clues to convey information, it plays an important role in mate selection. Since children have a long time to get along with their parents, the child is greatly influenced by their parents. By discussing the influence of faces that similar to their parents to college students’ mate preferences, this study aims to reveal the potential impact, broaden the research category of mating preferences, This can also help college students to form positive objective spouse-selection view, help them to adjust themselves and obtain ideal spouse, It also has a certain guiding significance to the school and social education institutions and consulting. On the basis of previous studies, this study adopts the event related potential (ERP) technology, with facial attractiveness as an index, to investigate the influence of faces that similar or dissimilar to their parents to college students’ mate preferences.This study is divided into two parts, the behavioral experiment and ERP experiment. Behavioral experiments is mainly on whether there are differences in reaction time and face attraction When participants rated the faces similar to their parents; ERP experiment used electroencephalography (EEG) to monitor the electrical activity of their brains as the participants performed these tasks. After the experiment and the statistical analysis, the study got such conclusions:(1)Mating preferences of male college students under the influence of mother similar face, the more similar, more attractive.(2)Mating preferences of female college students is affected by the common parent’s similar face, even more important and is subject to the influence of the mother.(3)In the ERP experiment, for male college students, pictures similar to mother’s face on the composition of P300 evoked a higher effect than pictures dissimilar to mother’s face; for female college students, pictures similar to their parents evoked a higher effect on N170/VPP components.(4)Whether male or female college students, this study get a same effect: in the P300 component, pictures similar to mother’s face induce a stronger effect of ERP than pictures similar to his father’s face, namely individual mating preferences influenced by mother similar faces than father similar faces.