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Perceiver and target partisanship shift facial trustworthiness effects on likability
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...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10105733/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37061541 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33307-8 |
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author | Malloy, Caraline S. Hughes, Colleen Cassidy, Brittany S. |
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description | 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 positive relation emerged for shared versus opposing partisan faces across more conservative and liberal perceivers (Experiments 1 and 2). Exploratory analyses showed that this difference links to perceived partisan threat (Experiment 1) and that experimentally manipulating inter-party threat strengthened opposing partisan derogation and shared partisan enhancement patterns (Experiment 2). These findings suggest that partisanship extends from affecting overall face impressions of partisans to affecting the relation between a core dimension of face perception and subsequent impressions. These findings highlight the prevalence of partisanship effects in basic aspects of person perception and have implications for intergroup behavior. |
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spelling | pubmed-101057332023-04-17 Perceiver and target partisanship shift facial trustworthiness effects on likability Malloy, Caraline S. Hughes, Colleen Cassidy, Brittany S. Sci Rep Article 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 positive relation emerged for shared versus opposing partisan faces across more conservative and liberal perceivers (Experiments 1 and 2). Exploratory analyses showed that this difference links to perceived partisan threat (Experiment 1) and that experimentally manipulating inter-party threat strengthened opposing partisan derogation and shared partisan enhancement patterns (Experiment 2). These findings suggest that partisanship extends from affecting overall face impressions of partisans to affecting the relation between a core dimension of face perception and subsequent impressions. These findings highlight the prevalence of partisanship effects in basic aspects of person perception and have implications for intergroup behavior. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10105733/ /pubmed/37061541 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33307-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Malloy, Caraline S. Hughes, Colleen Cassidy, Brittany S. Perceiver and target partisanship shift facial trustworthiness effects on likability |
title | Perceiver and target partisanship shift facial trustworthiness effects on likability |
title_full | Perceiver and target partisanship shift facial trustworthiness effects on likability |
title_fullStr | Perceiver and target partisanship shift facial trustworthiness effects on likability |
title_full_unstemmed | Perceiver and target partisanship shift facial trustworthiness effects on likability |
title_short | Perceiver and target partisanship shift facial trustworthiness effects on likability |
title_sort | perceiver and target partisanship shift facial trustworthiness effects on likability |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10105733/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37061541 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33307-8 |
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