Perceiver and target partisanship shift facial trustworthiness effects on likability.

ABSTRACT: The affective polarization characteristic of the United States' political climate contributes to pervasive intergroup tension. This tension polarizes basic aspects of person perception, such as face impressions. For instance, face impressions are polarized by partisanship disclosure such that people form positive and negative impressions of, respectively, shared and opposing partisan faces. How partisanship interacts with other facial cues affecting impressions remains unclear. Building on work showing that facial trustworthiness, a core dimension of face perception, is especially salient for ingroup members, we reasoned that shared and opposing partisanship may also affect the relation between facial trustworthiness characteristics and subsequent likability impressions. A stronger positiv

SUBMITTER: Malloy CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10105733 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature