Baby Schema and Sex Differences in Its Process
婴儿图式及其加工的性别差异

Baby schema(or Kindchenschema),referring to a kind of people's mental representation about a set of infant-like physical features,such as large head,big eyes and round face,can induce a positive emotion and care-giving behaviors towards the infant.Such a function plays an important role in improving the survival of individuals and satisfying the need to reproduce.There exist sex differences in people's reaction to infant faces,of which females are more sensitive to baby schema than males.The reasons may be ...