Culture and the perception of social dominance from facial expression.

Keating, Caroline F.; Mazur, Allan; Segall, Marshall H.; Cysneiros, Paulo Gileno; Kilbride, Janet E.; Leahy, Peter; Divale, William; Komin, Suntaree; Thurman, Blake; Wirsing, Rolf

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.40.4.615

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“…In fact, our analysis based on the factor values revealed significant positive correlations for Dominance ratings between all three countries, supporting the hypothesis of cultural universalities in the perception of Dominance from nonverbal behavior. This result is in line with data reported by Keating et al (1981), which revealed universals in Dominance perception from facial expressions and with those of Kowner and Wiseman (2003) who could show that nonverbal status cues could be identified as such even if not part of the own cultural repertoire.…”

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The others: Universals and cultural specificities in the perception of status and dominance from nonverbal behavior

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Consciousness and Cognition

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confidence: 94%

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Consciousness and Cognition

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“…Second, these works approached facial expressions mostly as broad contextual conditions rather than measurable dynamic cues. To our knowledge, few works have investigated the effect of fine-grained facial expressions, mostly based on facial action units, on the personality impressions from computer animated characters [4] or other human trait inferences trait inferences such as dominance [28] or leadership [48] from posed expressions in photos. In contrast, our work contributes to the literature by analyzing the independent cue utilization of seven standard facial expressions of emotion.…”

Section: Personality Impressions and Facial Expressions Of Emotionmentioning

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“…appearance) and dynamic facial expressions [29]. Studies have shown that amongst dynamic cues, people rely on the expression of emotion [30], [39], [26], [28], [4], [48], because there is a generalized understanding that these expressions not only provide information about people's affective states, but also convey information about personal traits. For example, a person who expresses happiness may be seen as someone who is confident, assertive, and friendly, whereas someone who is angry could be seen as an aggressive person.…”

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What Your Face Vlogs About: Expressions of Emotion and Big-Five Traits Impressions in YouTube

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Biel

Alba-Castro

et al. 2015

IEEE Trans. Affective Comput.

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Abstract-Social video sites where people share their opinions and feelings are increasing in popularity. The face is known to reveal important aspects of human psychological traits, so the understanding of how facial expressions relate to personal constructs is a relevant problem in social media. We present a study of the connections between automatically extracted facial expressions of emotion and impressions of Big-Five personality traits in YouTube vlogs (i.e., video blogs). We use the Computer Expression Recognition Toolbox (CERT) system to characterize users of conversational vlogs. From CERT temporal signals corresponding to instantaneously recognized facial expression categories, we propose and derive four sets of behavioral cues that characterize face statistics and dynamics in a compact way. The cue sets are first used in a correlation analysis to assess the relevance of each facial expression of emotion with respect to Big-Five impressions obtained from crowd-observers watching vlogs, and also as features for automatic personality impression prediction. Using a dataset of 281 vloggers, the study shows that while multiple facial expression cues have significant correlation with several of the Big-Five traits, they are only able to significantly predict Extraversion impressions with moderate values of R 2 .

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“…Displays of status help to organize social groups by providing hierarchies that assign roles to different members of the group (eg Schmid Mast 2001). Indeed, perceptions of dominance have previously been found to be highly consistent and predictive of important outcomes across perceivers (eg Keating et al 1981;Rule et al 2010), perhaps indicating that individuals are somewhat predisposed towards evaluating dominance and submission (Mazur 2005). Dominance can be readily judged from nonverbal behaviors (eg Schmid Mast and Hall 2004) and can have influences on the perception of important social traits, such as attractiveness and affect (Keating 1985;Ohman 1986;Raines et al 1990; see also Olson and Marshuetz 2005).…”

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Perceptions of Dominance following Glimpses of Faces and Bodies

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Abstract. Dominance is one of the most ecologically important social traits that humans express and perceive. Here, we examined perceivers' capacity to judge dominance under physical and temporal constraints. In study 1, dominant, neutral, and submissive poses of otherwise non-expressive faces and impoverished facial outlines were judged after exposure for 27 ms, 40 ms, 94 ms, or at a selfpaced rate (approximately 2000 ms). Perceivers' judgments of dominance were significantly more accurate than chance guessing for exposures of 40 ms and greater, with no significant increase in accuracy given additional viewing time. In study 2, we replaced faces with bodies and figural outlines of bodies. Perceivers' judgments were again better than chance for exposures of 40 ms and greater, but significant increases in accuracy were observed for durations of 94 ms and at a self-paced rate. Finally, in study 3, we combined studies 1 and 2 to allow comparisons across stimuli. Results showed that judgments of dominance from the faces were significantly more accurate than were those of the bodies, and judgments of full stimuli were more accurate than were those of outlines. These data extend our knowledge of the efficient and accurate perception of social cues from nonverbal behavior.

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Culture and the perception of social dominance from facial expression.

Cited by 130 publications

References 32 publications

The others: Universals and cultural specificities in the perception of status and dominance from nonverbal behavior

The others: Universals and cultural specificities in the perception of status and dominance from nonverbal behavior

What Your Face Vlogs About: Expressions of Emotion and Big-Five Traits Impressions in YouTube

Perceptions of Dominance following Glimpses of Faces and Bodies

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