Abstract
The article explores whether the traits representing the dimensions underlying the structure of facial and non-facial impressions are similarly mapped in the face space. Two studies examine whether the trustworthiness-by-dominance and the warmth-by-competence two-dimensional models overlap in face perception. In Study 1 (N = 200), we used a reverse-correlation task to obtain classification images (CIs) reflecting how each dimension is mapped onto a face. Results show that the similarity between CIs was higher between warmth and trustworthiness than between competence and dominance. In Study 2 (N = 31) the evaluations of each CI on each social dimension show a higher dissociation between dominance and competence than between trustworthiness and warmth. These results, obtained at both perceptual and judgment levels, suggest that there is only a partial correspondence between the two models that seems to be driven by the relationship that the competence and dominance dimensions establish with valence.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 888-902 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | European Journal of Social Psychology |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Aug 2019 |
Funding
This research had the support of Funda©cão para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) through the doctoral grant PD/BD/113471/2015 awarded to Manuel Oli-veira, and the strategic project UID/PSI/04810/2013 granted to the William James Center for Research. We thank Elizabeth Collins and Rui Costa-Lopes for their feedback during various stages of this project and Anneloes Kip and Márcia Oliveira for their comments on earlier drafts of this article.
Keywords
- competence
- dominance
- face perception
- person perception
- reverse correlation