The many faces of compensation: The similarities and differences between social and facial models of perception.

ABSTRACT: Previous research shows that stereotypes can distort the visual representation of groups in a top-down fashion. In the present endeavor, we tested if the compensation effect-the negative relationship that emerges between the social dimensions of warmth and competence when judging two social targets-would bias the visual representations of these targets in a compensatory way. We captured participants' near spontaneous facial prototypes of social targets by means of an unconstrained technique, namely the reverse correlation. We relied on a large multi-phase study (N = 869) and found that the expectations of the facial content of two novel groups that differed on one of the two social dimensions are biased in a compensatory manner on the facial dimensions of trustworthiness, warmth, and domin

SUBMITTER: Schmitz M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10890726 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature