Face Processing in Infancy and Beyond: The Case of Social Categories

Quinn, Paul C.; Kang, Lan; Pascalis, Olivier

doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-010418-102753

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“…Indeed, past research has found that people tend to form more accurate impressions of people who share their ethnic background (Rogers & Biesanz, ). Interestingly, this finding could be driven by attentional engagement given that people tend to prefer looking at similar others (e.g., individuals of the same gender or ethnicity; Quinn, Lee, & Pascalis, ). Thus, future research could examine whether perceived similarity for in‐group members increases attentional engagement to targets and therefore to impression accuracy.…”

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Attention promotes accurate impression formation

Capozzi

Human

Ristic

2019

Journal of Personality

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Objective: An ability to form accurate impressions of others is vital for adaptive social behavior in humans. Here, we examined if attending to persons more is associated with greater accuracy in personality impressions. Method: We asked 42 observers (36 females; mean age = 21 years, age range = 18-28; expected power = 0.96) to form personality impressions of unacquainted individuals (i.e., targets) from video interviews while their attentional behavior was assessed using eye tracking. We examined whether (a) attending more to targets benefited accuracy, (b) attending to specific body parts (e.g., face vs. body) drove this association, and (c) targets' ease of personality readability modulated these effects. Results: Paying more attention to a target was associated with forming more accurate personality impressions. Attention to the whole person contributed to this effect, with this association occurring independently of targets' ease of readability. Conclusions: These findings show that attending more to a person is associated with increased accuracy and thus suggest that attention promotes social adaption by supporting accurate social perception. K E Y W O R D Seye-tracking, interpersonal perception, personality impression, social attention, social cognition | 545 CAPOZZI et Al.

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Attention promotes accurate impression formation

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Ristic

2019

Journal of Personality

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“…For example, human and NHP newborns orient more toward faces and face‐shaped patterns compared to other images (Bard, Platzman, Lester, & Suomi, 1992; Kuwahata, Adachi, Fujita, Tomonaga, & Matsuzawa, 2004; Paukner, Bower, Simpson, & Suomi, 2013; Simpson et al., 2017; Valenza, Simion, Cassia, & Umiltà, 1996). These social preferences persist as infants develop (Sifre et al., 2018), while also becoming specialized for familiar categories, such as primary caretakers’ species, race, and gender (Quinn, Lee, & Pascalis, 2019; Scott & Fava, 2013). These social sensitivities appear evolutionarily conserved across primates and emerge early in development, shaped by infants’ social experiences (Simpson, Maylott, Lazo, et al, 2019).…”

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Human and monkey infant attention to dynamic social and nonsocial stimuli

Maylott

Paukner

Ahn

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Developmental Psychobiology

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The present study explored behavioral norms for infant social attention in typically developing human and nonhuman primate infants. We examined the normative development of attention to dynamic social and nonsocial stimuli longitudinally in macaques (Macaca mulatta) at 1, 3, and 5 months of age (N = 75) and humans at 2, 4, 6, 8, and 13 months of age (N = 69) using eye tracking. All infants viewed concurrently played silent videos—one social video and one nonsocial video. Both macaque and human infants were faster to look to the social than the nonsocial stimulus, and both species grew faster to orient to the social stimulus with age. Further, macaque infants’ social attention increased linearly from 1 to 5 months. In contrast, human infants displayed a nonlinear pattern of social interest, with initially greater attention to the social stimulus, followed by a period of greater interest in the nonsocial stimulus, and then a rise in social interest from 6 to 13 months. Overall, human infants looked longer than macaque infants, suggesting humans have more sustained attention in the first year of life. These findings highlight potential species similarities and differences, and reflect a first step in establishing baseline patterns of early social attention development.

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“…For example, at birth, infants can differentiate among individuals of various races. By 3 months, however, those raised in racially homogeneous contexts become less able to differentiate among members of unfamiliar races, perceiving that they all look and sound alike (Perrachione, Chiao, & Wong, 2010; Quinn, Lee, & Pascalis, 2019). As another example, individuals raised in relatively collectivistic contexts often focus on others, whereas those raised in relatively individualistic contexts often focus on themselves, which can give rise to racial differences in memory construction and recall (Wang, 2019; Wang, Song, & Koh, 2017).…”

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Racial Inequality in Psychological Research: Trends of the Past and Recommendations for the Future

Roberts

Bareket-Shavit

Dollins

et al. 2020

Perspect Psychol Sci

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Race plays an important role in how people think, develop, and behave. In the current article, we queried more than 26,000 empirical articles published between 1974 and 2018 in top-tier cognitive, developmental, and social psychology journals to document how often psychological research acknowledges this reality and to examine whether people who edit, write, and participate in the research are systematically connected. We note several findings. First, across the past five decades, psychological publications that highlight race have been rare, and although they have increased in developmental and social psychology, they have remained virtually nonexistent in cognitive psychology. Second, most publications have been edited by White editors, under which there have been significantly fewer publications that highlight race. Third, many of the publications that highlight race have been written by White authors who employed significantly fewer participants of color. In many cases, we document variation as a function of area and decade. We argue that systemic inequality exists within psychological research and that systemic changes are needed to ensure that psychological research benefits from diversity in editing, writing, and participation. To this end, and in the spirit of the field’s recent emphasis on metascience, we offer recommendations for journals and authors.

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Face Processing in Infancy and Beyond: The Case of Social Categories

Cited by 76 publications

References 156 publications

Attention promotes accurate impression formation

Attention promotes accurate impression formation

Human and monkey infant attention to dynamic social and nonsocial stimuli

Racial Inequality in Psychological Research: Trends of the Past and Recommendations for the Future

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