A data-driven study of Chinese participants' social judgments of Chinese faces.

ABSTRACT: Social judgments of faces made by Western participants are thought to be underpinned by two dimensions: valence and dominance. Because some research suggests that Western and Eastern participants process faces differently, the two-dimensional model of face evaluation may not necessarily apply to judgments of faces by Eastern participants. Here we used a data-driven approach to investigate the components underlying social judgments of Chinese faces by Chinese participants. Analyses showed that social judgments of Chinese faces by Chinese participants are partly underpinned by a general approachability dimension similar to the valence dimension previously found to underpin Western participants' evaluations of White faces. However, we found that a general capability dimension, rather than a d

SUBMITTER: Wang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6319767 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature