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Advances In Understanding The Detectability Of Trustworthiness From The Face: Toward A Taxonomy Of A Multifaceted Construct, John Paul Wilson, Nicholas O. Rule
Advances In Understanding The Detectability Of Trustworthiness From The Face: Toward A Taxonomy Of A Multifaceted Construct, John Paul Wilson, Nicholas O. Rule
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Researchers have recently shown increasing interest in assessments of trustworthiness, devoting much attention to whether trustworthiness can be detected from a person’s facial appearance. This question has been investigated along diverse behavioral dimensions, using a wide variety of targets, and with great inconsistency in results. Here, we call for greater precision in defining trustworthiness. We review various subdomains of trustworthiness perception and argue that developing a more highly specified taxonomy of trustworthiness will allow for better predictions about when trustworthiness can be judged on the basis of appearance, for more precision in estimating how accurate people are in making such …
Racial Bias In Judgments Of Physical Size And Formidability: From Size To Threat, John Paul Wilson, Kurt Hugenberg, Nicholas O. Rule
Racial Bias In Judgments Of Physical Size And Formidability: From Size To Threat, John Paul Wilson, Kurt Hugenberg, Nicholas O. Rule
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Black men tend to be stereotyped as threatening and, as a result, may be disproportionately targeted by police even when unarmed. Here, we found evidence that biased perceptions of young Black men's physical size may play a role in this process. The results of 7 studies showed that people have a bias to perceive young Black men as bigger (taller, heavier, more muscular) and more physically threatening (stronger, more capable of harm) than young White men. Both bottom-up cues of racial prototypicality and top-down information about race supported these misperceptions. Furthermore, this racial bias persisted even among a target sample …
Interactive Effects Of Obvious And Ambiguous Social Categories On Perceptions Of Leadership: When Double-Minority Status May Be Beneficial, John Paul Wilson, Jessica D. Remedios, Nicholas O. Rule
Interactive Effects Of Obvious And Ambiguous Social Categories On Perceptions Of Leadership: When Double-Minority Status May Be Beneficial, John Paul Wilson, Jessica D. Remedios, Nicholas O. Rule
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Easily perceived identities (e.g., race) may interact with perceptually ambiguous identities (e.g., sexual orientation) in meaningful but elusive ways. Here, we investigated how intersecting identities impact impressions of leadership. People perceived gay Black men as better leaders than members of either single-minority group (i.e., gay or Black). Yet, different traits supported judgments of the leadership abilities of Black and White targets; for instance, warmth positively predicted leadership judgments for Black men but dominance positively predicted leadership judgments for White men. These differences partly occurred because of different perceptions of masculinity across the intersection of race and sexual orientation. Indeed, both …