Beauty Is in the Eyes of the Perceiver: The Impact of Affective Stereotyping on the Perception of Outgroup Members' Facial Expressions

Philippot, Pierre; Yabar, Y.; Bourgeois, Patrick L.

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511499838.005

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“…Our prediction is also supported by the emotion stereotypes literature. A considerable body of research has investigated how emotion stereotypes affect emotion detection (e.g., Hess, Adams, Grammer, & Kleck, 2009; Hess, Adams, & Kleck, 2007; Hugenberg & Bodenhausen, 2003; Philippot, Yabar, & Bourgeois, 2007). We extend this research by investigating how emotion stereotypes shape reactions to unambiguous anger expression during group decision making.…”

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Women and African Americans are less influential when they express anger during group decision making

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Peter-Hagene

Jay

2017

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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Section: Emotion Stereotypesmentioning

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Women and African Americans are less influential when they express anger during group decision making

Salerno

Peter-Hagene

Jay

2017

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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“…Given that the social relationship between expresser and perceiver of an emotion is most important in intergroup situations ([ 21 , 22 ), it seems plausible that the mental representations of in-group and out-group smiles differ with regard to the signaled social but not necessarily with regard to the affective meaning. Affective meaning (felt affect) and social meaning might be (at least in part) independent of each other: A smile can carry a positive social meaning but the expresser can experience negative affect (e.g., a shameful smile) and vice versa (e.g., mischievous smile).…”

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Positive Feeling, Negative Meaning: Visualizing the Mental Representations of In-Group and Out-Group Smiles

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Even though smiles are seen as universal facial expressions, research shows that there exist various kinds of smiles (i.e., affiliative smiles, dominant smiles). Accordingly, we suggest that there also exist various mental representations of smiles. Which representation is employed in cognition may depend on social factors, such as the smiling person’s group membership: Since in-group members are typically seen as more benevolent than out-group members, in-group smiles should be associated with more benevolent social meaning than those conveyed by out-group members. We visualized in-group and out-group smiles with reverse correlation image classification. These visualizations indicated that mental representations of in-group smiles indeed express more benevolent social meaning than those of out-group smiles. The affective meaning of these visualized smiles was not influenced by group membership. Importantly, the effect occurred even though participants were not instructed to attend to the nature of the smile, pointing to an automatic association between group membership and intention.

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Arresting and convicting the innocent: the potential role of an “inappropriate” emotional display in the accused

Heath

2009

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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Research from both simulated and actual jurors has demonstrated that the defendant's emotional display can influence legal decisions. The purpose of this paper is to review the evidence regarding the influence of the defendant's emotional display, and to consider the potential role of suspect and defendant emotion in wrongful convictions. It is possible that the lack of "appropriate" emotion during questioning or interrogation may lead investigators to create a mind-set that the suspect is the guilty party; as a result, they may be less inclined to investigate other leads. During a trial, the defendant's perceived level of emotion can potentially mislead jurors (e.g. a defendant displaying a low level of emotion leading people to believe, inappropriately, that he is guilty). After a review of the pertinent literature and examples of relevant cases, reasons are provided regarding why one's emotional display may be of limited diagnostic value. Future research ideas are proposed in an effort to determine more definitively the impact of the emotional display of the accused on legal decisions.

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Beauty Is in the Eyes of the Perceiver: The Impact of Affective Stereotyping on the Perception of Outgroup Members' Facial Expressions

Cited by 5 publications

References 45 publications

Women and African Americans are less influential when they express anger during group decision making

Women and African Americans are less influential when they express anger during group decision making

Positive Feeling, Negative Meaning: Visualizing the Mental Representations of In-Group and Out-Group Smiles

Arresting and convicting the innocent: the potential role of an “inappropriate” emotional display in the accused

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