Abstract
The uncanny valley effect is being studied today mainly from the point of view of psychology. In the present study, this effect is considered from the standpoint of physical anthropology: an attempt was made to identify facial features and proportions, facial indices that make the observer feel fear and anxiety. Respondents will be asked to select the most sinister images of faces belonging to robots, animated characters etc. A number of parameters will be measured on the faces of the characters, which the respondents call the most terrible. These parameters will be compared with the proportions of human faces in order to find significant differences. In order to check the identified proportions and indices, the presence of which on the face instills a sense of anxiety in the observer, a sample of respondents will be presented for evaluation of images of human faces that have been changed in a graphic editor (artificially endowed with those proportions and indices that, as the first study revealed, give the face creepiness). Also, during the study, the connection between the uncanny valley effect and such a mechanism for perceiving a visual image as the construction of a perceptual hypothesis will be tested.
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