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Skin colour preference was widely studied. But limited research investigated the preferred skin colour of different genders. This study investigated the skin colour preference of the Chinese female and male based on the Leeds Liverpool skin colour database (LLSC). An facial image of Chinese female and an image of Chinese male were used in this study. Twenty-five skin colours with different skin whiteness and hue angle were rendered to these two images. A psychophysical experiment was carried out to determine the skin colour preference. Twenty-four observers were participated. The result shows that the gender of the observer have limited influence on the judgement of the skin colour preference. This study found that the preferred skin colour for different gender is different. The Chinese male with darker skin colour and Chinese female with whiter skin colour was preferred. Reddish skin colour were preferred for both genders.
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This study is partly funded by Jiangnan university fundamental research funding (JUSRP119100).
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Funding: This study is partly funded by Jiangnan university fundamental research funding (JUSRP119100)
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Ethical approval: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the school of digital media, Jiangnan University and approved by the university research ethical committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The images and skin colour information are from Leeds Liverpool Skin Colour Database.
Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
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Wang, M., Cao, J. (2020). Chinese Skin Colour Preference of Different Genders. In: Zhao, P., Ye, Z., Xu, M., Yang, L. (eds) Advanced Graphic Communication, Printing and Packaging Technology. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 600. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1864-5_13
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