Racial Prejudice Affects Representations of Facial Trustworthiness.
Psychol Sci
; 35(3): 263-276, 2024 Mar.
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ABSTRACT
What makes faces seem trustworthy? We investigated how racial prejudice predicts the extent to which perceivers employ racially prototypical cues to infer trustworthiness from faces. We constructed participant-level computational models of trustworthiness and White-to-Black prototypicality from U.S. college students' judgments of White (Study 1, N = 206) and Black-White morphed (Study 3, N = 386) synthetic faces. Although the average relationships between models differed across stimuli, both studies revealed that as participants' anti-Black prejudice increased and/or intergroup contact decreased, so too did participants' tendency to conflate White prototypical features with trustworthiness and Black prototypical features with untrustworthiness. Study 2 (N = 324) and Study 4 (N = 397) corroborated that untrustworthy faces constructed from participants with pro-White preferences appeared more Black prototypical to naive U.S. adults, relative to untrustworthy faces modeled from other participants. This work highlights the important role of racial biases in shaping impressions of facial trustworthiness.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Racismo
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Adult
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Humans
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En
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Psychol Sci
Assunto da revista:
PSICOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2024
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Article