The role of Afrocentric features in person perception: Judging by features and categories.

Blair, Irene V.; Judd, Charles H.; Sadler, Melody; Jenkins, Christopher

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.83.1.5

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“…These data help account for-and also provoke new questions about-recent findings of exemplar typicality and face variation effects on stereotype activation and social judgment (e.g., Blair, Judd, Sadler, & Jenkins, 2002;Livingston & Brewer, 2002;Locke, Macrae, & Eaton, 2005). Specifically, these findings provide a novel demonstration of how variation of categorycuing information biases the real-time stereotyping process in a continuous and graded way.…”

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Motions of the Hand Expose the Partial and Parallel Activation of Stereotypes

2009

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ABSTRACT-Perceivers spontaneously sort other people's faces into social categories and activate the stereotype knowledge associated with those categories. In the work described here, participants, presented with sex-typical and sex-atypical faces (i.e., faces containing a mixture of male and female features), identified which of two gender stereotypes (one masculine and one feminine) was appropriate for the face. Meanwhile, their hand movements were measured by recording the streaming x, y coordinates of the computer mouse. As participants stereotyped sex-atypical faces, real-time motor responses exhibited a continuous spatial attraction toward the opposite-gender stereotype. These data provide evidence for the partial and parallel activation of stereotypes belonging to alternate social categories. Thus, perceptual cues of the face can trigger a graded mixture of simultaneously active stereotype knowledge tied to alternate social categories, and this mixture settles over time onto ultimate judgments.

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Motions of the Hand Expose the Partial and Parallel Activation of Stereotypes

2009

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“…For instance, judgments of race are based on both skin tone and other features (e.g., Blair, Judd, Sadler, & Jenkins, 2002;Maddox, 2004). We may have theories about some cues that we can easily apply (such as skin tone), but we might not realize that other cues affect our judgments as well (such as facial features; see Blair, Judd, & Fallman, 2004).…”

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Accuracy and awareness in the perception and categorization of male sexual orientation.

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Ambady

Adams³

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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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For clear and unambiguous social categories, person perception occurs quite accurately from minimal cues. This article addresses the perception of an ambiguous social category (male sexual orientation) from minimal cues. Across 5 studies, the authors examined individuals' actual and self-assessed accuracy when judging male sexual orientation from faces and facial features. Although participants were able to make accurate judgments from multiple facial features (i.e., hair, the eyes, and the mouth area), their perceived accuracy was calibrated with their actual accuracy only when making judgments based on hairstyle, a controllable feature. These findings provide evidence that suggests different processes for extracting social category information during perception: explicit judgments based on obvious cues (hairstyle) and intuitive judgments based on nonobvious cues (information from the eyes and mouth area). Differences in the accuracy of judgments based on targets' controllability and perceivers' awareness of cues provides insight into the processes underlying intuitive predictions and intuitive judgments.

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“…The treatment of atypical exemplars may differ if photographs or videotapes, rather than verbal labels, are used to cue group membership (Gilbert & Hixon, 1991;Macrae & Bodenhausen, 2000). When presented with photographs, for instance, individuals can simply rely on seemingly diagnostic features of the exemplars to assign membership in visible categories (Blair, Judd, Sadler, & Jenkins, 2002;Livingston & Brewer, 2002;Maddox & Gray, 2002; but see also Olson, Lambert, & Zacks, 2004;Zárate & Sandoval, 1995). When famous (or infamous) exemplars are used, furthermore, participants do not need to perceive the exemplars' racial group memberships but can simply generate them from memory.…”

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On the Categorization of Admired and Disliked Exemplars of Admired and Disliked Racial Groups.

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Trawalter

2005

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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The present work examined the influence of affective fit in the racial categorization process. Study 1 tested whether famous exemplars of stigmatized and nonstigmatized racial groups are categorized by race at differential rates, depending on whether they are admired or disliked. Using an inverted-face paradigm, Study 2 examined whether racial categorization accuracy differs for admired and disliked exemplars of these groups. Study 3 examined the influence of collective self-esteem on Whites' tendency to differentially categorize admired and disliked Black and White exemplars. Last, Study 4 replicated the pattern of results found in the previous studies for White participants, making use of unknown exemplars about whom participants learned either positive or negative information prior to categorizing them. Taken together, the results suggested that phenotypically irrelevant affective information regarding exemplars and their social group memberships influences the racial categorization process. Implications for prejudice and stereotyping are discussed.

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The role of Afrocentric features in person perception: Judging by features and categories.

Cited by 310 publications

References 58 publications

Motions of the Hand Expose the Partial and Parallel Activation of Stereotypes

Motions of the Hand Expose the Partial and Parallel Activation of Stereotypes

Accuracy and awareness in the perception and categorization of male sexual orientation.

On the Categorization of Admired and Disliked Exemplars of Admired and Disliked Racial Groups.

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