Abstract: The negative physical selfheight dimension scale and the height and identity perception test of unfamiliar faces were tested on adolescents to investigate their status of “short” negative physical self and their perception of others height and identity. It turns out that adolescents are generally dissatisfied with their height and the result is not influenced by age or gender but by the attractiveness of the face. Adolescents height and identity perception of the high-attractive unfamiliar faces is significantly better than that of the medium-attractive and the low-attractive unfamiliar faces. Under the same conditions in terms of the attraction, their perception of the males height is significantly higher than that in females. In the group of “short” negative physical selfscore participants, the height perception of the low-attractive female faces is significantly higher than that of the male faces. It shows that the phenomena of “short” negative physical self are general in adolescents and it affects the perception of the height and identity of unfamiliar faces, which is related to the concept of “beauty is high”; the more ‘short’ negative physical self, the more cognitive bias to the strangers height information.

Key words: “short” negative physical self, height perception, identity perception, face attraction, adolescents