Culture and the perception of social dominance from facial expression

Eyebrow and mouth gestures were tested in a series of cross-cultural experiments involving 1,797 Ss. Pairs of human portrait photographs were shown to Ss in 11 national/cultural settings, and Ss were asked to make judgments of dominance or happiness. Results strongly support a universal association...

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Published in:Journal of personality and social psychology 1981-04, Vol.40 (4), p.615-626
Main Author: Keating, Caroline F
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
COMMUNICATIONS
Cross Cultural Differences
Dominance
DOMINATION
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
Facial Expressions
FOR POLITICAL CULTURE SEE POL/CULTUR
HAPPINESS OR UNHAPPINESS
Human
MOTIVATION
Social Dominance
Social Perception
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Summary:Eyebrow and mouth gestures were tested in a series of cross-cultural experiments involving 1,797 Ss. Pairs of human portrait photographs were shown to Ss in 11 national/cultural settings, and Ss were asked to make judgments of dominance or happiness. Results strongly support a universal association between smiles and happiness and weakly support a universal nonsmiling/dominance association, but restrict a lowered-brow/dominance association to relatively more Westernized samples. (47 ref)
ISSN:0022-3514
1939-1315
DOI:10.1037/0022-3514.40.4.615