Mileva, Mila, Kramer, Robin S. S. and Burton, A. Mike (2019) Social evaluation of faces across gender and familiarity. Perception, 48 (6). pp. 471-486. ISSN 0301-0066
Full content URL: http://doi.org/10.1177/0301006619848996
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Item Type: | Article |
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Item Status: | Live Archive |
Abstract
Models of social evaluation aim to capture the information people use to form first impressions of unfamiliar others. However, little is currently known about the relationship between perceived traits across gender. In Study 1, we asked viewers to provide ratings of key social dimensions (dominance, trustworthiness, etc.) for multiple images of 40 unfamiliar identities. We observed clear sex differences in the perception of dominance—with negative evaluations of high dominance in unfamiliar females but not males. In Study 2, we used the social evaluation context to investigate the key predictions about the importance of pictorial information in familiar and unfamiliar face processing. We compared the consistency of ratings attributed to different images of the same identities and demonstrated that ratings of images depicting the same familiar identity are more tightly clustered than those of unfamiliar identities. Such results imply a shift from image rating to person rating with increased familiarity, a finding which generalises results previously observed in studies of identification.
Keywords: | social evaluation, first impressions, face perception, familiar faces |
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Subjects: | C Biological Sciences > C830 Experimental Psychology C Biological Sciences > C800 Psychology |
Divisions: | College of Social Science > School of Psychology |
ID Code: | 36057 |
Deposited On: | 24 May 2019 10:12 |
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