Assessment of individual psychological characteristics based on perception of photographic image of facial Mongoloid race by Europeans with the use of sensomotoric instruments

The aspects explored are psychological characteristics attributed to each face by subjects of the experiment. These characteristics include activity, tenseness and sociability. Photographic images of individuals of Mongoloid race aged between 20 and 30 were used as the stimulus material. To achieve a thorough understanding of the main factors that influence perception of human face, we registered ocular motor activity of all the subjects during the experiment. Individuals of Caucasian race assessed individual-psychological characteristics of Mongoloids from photographs of their faces. The Caucasian Group consisted of 16 students of Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod in age from 18 to 22 years. The aim of this research is to confirm the presence of general “universal” schemes of eye movements during observing and assessment faces,to identify the singularities of perception of faces of another race, to identify the impact of tasks on staging tactics examining face. It was discovered that: a) While observing Mongoloid faces subjects of the experiment were more likely to gaze around the displayed faces with their eye movements track wandering over a wider area that formes a circle: face as a whole - right eye - left eye - nose - mouth; b) in assessing activity of a person from a photograph of their face the greatest duration of gaze fixation was observed in the right eye area, when assessing tenseness - in the area of the nose and right eye; c) while assessing good nature and attractiveness people concentrate on the observed face as a whole, not fixating their gaze of other areas for long; d) the greater the Garson's index is, the more eye fixations tend to be found in the left-eye area; the smaller it is, the more fixations are found in the right-eye area; e) the number of facial zones considered depends on an observer.