Selahattin Adil Sarıbay

Sarıbay, Selahattin Adil

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Prof. Dr.

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adil.saribay@khas.edu.tr

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0000-0001-7070-7106

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Attractiveness Differentially Affects Direct Versus Indirect Face Evaluations in Two Cultures
(Sage Publications Inc, 2023) Cassidy, Brittany S.; Saribay, S. Adil; Yuksel, Huseyin; Kleisner, Karel
Although decades of research have identified facial features relating to people's evaluations of faces, specific features have largely been examined in isolation from each other. Recent work shows that considering the relative importance of these features in face evaluations is important to test theoretical assumptions of impression formation. Here, we examined how two facial features of evolutionary interest, facial attractiveness and facial-width-to-height ratio (FWHR), relate to evaluations of faces across two cultures. Because face evaluations are typically directly measured via self-reports, we also examined whether these features exert differential effects on both direct and indirect face evaluations. Evaluations of standardized photos naturally varying in facial attractiveness and FWHR were collected using the Affect Misattribution Procedure in the United States and Turkey. When their relative contributions were considered in the same model, facial attractiveness, but not FWHR, related to face evaluations across cultures. This positive attractiveness effect was stronger for direct versus indirect evaluations across cultures. These findings highlight the importance of considering the relative contributions of facial features to evaluations across cultures and suggest a culturally invariant role of attractiveness when intentionally evaluating faces.
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Facial Masculinity Increases Perceptions of Men's Age, But Not Perceptions of Their Health: Data From an Arab Sample
(SPRINGERNATURE, 2021) Alharbi, Sarah A. H.; Holzleitner, Iris J.; Lee, Anthony J.; Saribay, S. Adil; Jones, Benedict C.
Masculine characteristics in men's faces are often assumed to function as health cues. However, evidence for this assumption from empirical tests is mixed. For example, research on Western women's face perceptions found that masculinized versions of men's faces were perceived to be older, but not healthier, than feminized versions. Since research on this topic has focused on Western women's face perceptions, we investigated the effects of masculinizing face images on Arab women's perceptions of men's health (study 1, N = 211) and age (study 2, N = 209). Arab women perceived masculinized versions of male face images to be older, but not healthier, than feminized versions. These results add to a growing body of evidence challenging the assumption that male facial masculinity functions primarily as a health cue.
Holistik Düşüncenin Türkiye'deki Davranışsal Profilleri
(2024) Kayatepe, Emre; Sarıbay, Selahattin Adil
Örtük profil analizini ve 'kültür ve biliş' literatüründen çeşitli görevleri kullanan Na ve ark. (2020), insanların bilişsel stillerinde zaman içinde sabit davranış profilleri sergilediklerini buldu. Çalışma 1'de (N = 540) bu bulguyu tekrarladık, ancak (Türk) katılımcılarımızın bilişsel stil davranış profilleri Na ve arkadaşlarının (Kuzey Amerikalı) katılımcılarınınkinden farklıydı. Kuzey Amerikalı katılımcıların davranış profilleri büyük ölçüde dışarıdan-içeriye görevinde farklılaşırken, Türk katılımcıların davranış profilleri büyük ölçüde dahil etme görevinde farklılaştı. Çalışma 2'de (N = 465), Çalışma 1'i farklı bütünsel düşünce alanlarını kapsayacak şekilde genişlettik ve insanların sabit davranış profilleri sergilediğini bir kez daha gösterdik. Çalışma 2'de katılımcılar, diyalektik düşünce görevlerinin ikisinde (öncelikle sosyal çatışmaların çözümü ve biraz da atasözü görevlerinde) farklılaşmıştır. Bu sonuçlar, bilişsel stil davranış profillerindeki zamansal sabitliğin kültürler arasında geçerli olmasına rağmen, bu profillerin kültürden kültüre farklılık gösterme eğiliminde olduğunu göstermektedir.
Holistik Düşünce Tarzı ile İklim Krizi, Covıd-19 Salgını ve Ekonomik Eşitsizliğe Dair Tutum ve Davranış Niyetleri Arasındaki İlişki: Ağ Analizi
(2024) Özman, Nagihan; Sarıbay, Selahattin Adil
İklim değişikliği, COVID-19 salgını ve ekonomik eşitsizlik son birkaç yıldır önemli küresel sorunlar haline gelmiştir. Bu problemler, önceki tehditlerden daha karmaşıktır ve bu nedenle uygun bilişsel stiller gerektirmektedir. Mevcut çalışma (N = 631), holistik düşünce stili ile bu tehditlere karşı harekete geçme tutumları ve niyetleriyle ilişkili olabilecek bir dizi değişken arasındaki ilişkiyi araştırmıştır. Katılımcılar, 11 tane öz-bildirim ölçeğinden oluşan çevrimiçi bir test bataryasını tamamlamışlardır. Bu amaçla ağ analizleri yapılmıştır. Sonuçlar, karmaşık neden-sonuç ilişkilerini algılamaya yönelik holistik eğilim (Nedensellik bileşeni) ile doğaya yönelik risklerin farkındalığı ve doğaya karşı duygusal yakınlık arasında pozitif bir bağlantı olduğunu göstermektedir. Bütünü dikkate alma eğilimi (Dikkat bileşeni), kamusal alanlarda daha fazla çevre yanlısı davranma isteği ile ilgili bulunmuştur. Ayrıca, nedensellik bileşeni COVID-19 salgınına yönelik önleyici davranışlarda bulunmayla pozitif bağlantılı çıkmıştır. Gelecekte değişim bekleme eğilimi (Değişim bileşeni) ve sağcı ekonomik politikaları desteklemek negatif ilişkili bulunmuştur. Nedenselliğin yönü belirsizliğini korusa da bu sonuçlar, daha holistik düşünmenin küresel tehditleri anlamayı ve etkilerini hafifletmek için harekete geçmeyi kolaylaştırma olasılığını ortaya koymaktadır.
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How and Why Patterns of Sexual Dimorphism in Human Faces Vary Across the World
(2021-03) Kleisner, Karel; Turecek, Petr; Robert, S. Craig; Havlieck, Jan; Valentova, Jaroslava Varella; Akoko, Robert Mbe; Leongomez, Juan David; Apostol, Silviu; Varella, Marco A. C.; Sarıbay, Adil
Sexual selection, including mate choice and intrasexual competition, is responsible for the evolution of some of the most elaborated and sexually dimorphic traits in animals. Although there is sexual dimorphism in the shape of human faces, it is not clear whether this is similarly due to mate choice, or whether mate choice affects only part of the facial shape difference between men and women. Here we explore these questions by investigating patterns of both facial shape and facial preference across a diverse set of human populations. We find evidence that human populations vary substantially and unexpectedly in both the magnitude and direction of facial sexually dimorphic traits. In particular, European and South American populations display larger levels of facial sexual dimorphism than African populations. Neither cross-cultural differences in facial shape variation, sex differences in body height, nor differing preferences for facial femininity and masculinity across countries, explain the observed patterns of facial dimorphism. Altogether, the association between sexual shape dimorphism and attractiveness is moderate for women and weak (or absent) for men. Analysis that distinguishes between allometric and non-allometric components reveals that non-allometric facial dimorphism is preferred in women's faces but not in faces of men. This might be due to different regimes of ongoing sexual selection acting on men, such as stronger intersexual selection for body height and more intense intrasexual physical competition, compared with women.
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Differential Effects of Resource Scarcity and Pathogen Prevalence on Heterosexual Women's Facial Masculinity Preferences
(Cambridge Univ Press, 2021) Saribay, S. Adil; Turecek, Petr; Paluch, Ruzgar; Kleisner, Karel
The present research focused on how environmental harshness may affect heterosexual women's preferences of potential male mates' facial characteristics, namely masculinity-femininity. The evidence on this issue is mixed and mostly from Western samples. We aimed to provide causal evidence using a sample of Turkish women and Turkish male faces. A video-based manipulation was developed to heighten environmental harshness perceptions. In the main experiment, participants were primed with resource scarcity, pathogen prevalence or neither (control). They then saw masculinised vs. feminised versions of the same faces and indicated the face that they would prefer for a long-term relationship and separately rated the faces on various dimensions. In general, masculinised faces were perceived as slightly more attractive, slightly healthier and much more formidable. A multilevel Bayesian model showed that pathogen prevalence lowered the preference for masculinised faces while resource scarcity weakly elevated it. The overall drop in attractiveness ratings in cases of high perceived pathogen prevalence, one of the strongest effects we observed, suggests that during epidemics, the formation of new relationships is not a favourable strategy. Implications for evolutionary theories of mate preference are discussed.
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Are Holistic Thinkers Intellectually Humbler? a First Test
(Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, 2024) Gungor, Mertcan; Kayatepe, Emre; Ozman, Nagihan; Sencan, Rueya Su; Saribay, S. Adil
Intellectual humility (IH) is the tendency to consider that one's beliefs might be fallible. In a pre-registered preliminary study with an undergraduate sample (n = 350), we adapted IH measures to Turkish and in line with past research, we replicated IH's positive correlation with Openness to Experience and negative correlation with Closed-Mindedness. However, IH was not related to Discomfort with Ambiguity. Moreover, consistent with recent theoretical discussions of an overlap between IH and certain aspects of East Asian worldviews, we found that holistic thinking tendency positively predicted IH scores, beyond social desirability and effortful thinking. Our confirmatory study (n = 693) revealed that higher levels of middle way approach and perception of change components of holistic thinking were associated with greater intellectual humility beyond demographics and other substantive predictors of IH. While the effects were small in magnitude and their generalizability awaits further testing, these associations are sensible and motivate continued exploration of the relationship between IH and holistic thinking.
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Does Self-Rated Attractiveness Predict Women's Preferences for Facial Masculinity? Data From an Arab Sample
(SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, 2021-03) Alharbi, Sahar A. H.; Holzleitner, Iris J.; Sarıbay, S. Adil; Jones, Benedict C.; Lee, Anthony J.
Objectives Because more attractive women may be better able to attract and/or retain masculine mates, many researchers have proposed that women who consider themselves to be more physically attractive will show stronger preferences for men displaying masculine facial characteristics. Empirical evidence for this putative association between women's self-rated attractiveness and preference for facial masculinity has come almost entirely from studies of Western women. Thus, we investigated whether this pattern of results also occurs in a sample of non-Western women. Methods We investigated the relationship between self-rated attractiveness and facial-masculinity preferences in a sample of Arab women (N = 281). Facial-masculinity preferences were assessed from attractiveness judgments of masculinized versus feminized versions of face images. Results By contrast with previous findings for Western women's self-rated attractiveness, we observed no compelling evidence that Arab women who considered themselves to be more attractive showed stronger preferences for masculine men. Conclusions Our results suggest that previously reported associations between self-rated attractiveness and masculinity preferences might be somewhat culture specific, potentially reflecting cultural differences in typical mating strategies.
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Distinctiveness and Femininity, Rather Than Symmetry and Masculinity, Affect Facial Attractiveness Across the World
(Elsevier Science inc, 2024) Kleisner, Karel; Turecek, Petr; Saribay, S. Adil; Pavlovic, Ondrej; David Leongomez, Juan; Roberts, S. Craig; Varella, Marco A. C.
Studies investigating facial attractiveness in humans have frequently been limited to studying the effect of individual morphological factors in isolation from other facial shape components in the same population. In this study, we go beyond this approach by focusing on multiple components and populations while combining geometric morphometrics of 72 standardized frontal facial landmarks and a Bayesian statistical framework. We investigate preferences in both sexes for three structural components of other sex facial beauty that are traditionally considered indicators of biological quality: symmetry, sexual dimorphism, and distinctiveness (i.e., the opposite of averageness). Based on a large sample of faces (n = 1550) from 10 populations across the world (Brazil, Cameroon, Czechia, Colombia, India, Namibia, Romania, Turkey, UK, and Vietnam), we found that distinctiveness negatively affects the perception of attractiveness in both sexes and that this association is stable across all studied populations. We corroborated some previous results indicating both a positive effect of femininity on male assessment of female facial beauty and a null or weak effect of masculinity on female evaluation of male facial attractiveness. Facial symmetry had no effect on facial attractiveness. In concert with other recent studies, our results support the importance of facial prototypicality but cast doubt on the role of symmetry as one of the key constituents of attractiveness in the human face.
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Facial Attractiveness and Preference of Sexual Dimorphism: a Comparison Across Five Populations
(Cambridge University Press, 2021) Vojtech, Fiala; Vít, Trebicky; Farid, Pazhoohi; Juan David, Leongómez; Petr, Turecek; Robert Mbe, Akoko; Karel, Kleisner; S. Adil, Sarıbay
Despite intensive research, evolutionary psychology has not yet reached a consensus regarding the association between sexual dimorphism and attractiveness. This study examines associations between perceived and morphological facial sexual dimorphism and perceived attractiveness in samples from five distant countries (Cameroon, Colombia, Czechia, Iran, and Turkey). We also examined possible moderating effects of skin lightness, averageness, age, body mass, and facial width. Our results suggest that in all samples, women’s perceived femininity was positively related to their perceived attractiveness. Women found perceived masculinity in men attractive only in Czechia and Colombia, two distant populations. The association between perceived sexual dimorphism and attractiveness is thus potentially universal only for women. Across populations, morphological sexual dimorphism and averageness are not universally associated with either perceived facial sexual dimorphism or attractiveness. With our exploratory approach, results highlight the need for control of which measure of sexual dimorphism is used (perceived or measured) because they affect perceived attractiveness differently. Morphological averageness and sexual dimorphism are not good predictors of perceived attractiveness. It is noted that future studies should use more population samples to allow for identification of specific effects of local environmental and socioeconomic conditions on preferred traits in unmanipulated local facial stimuli.