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Perceptions of persons who wear face coverings are modulated by the perceivers’ attitude

We examined if the effect of facial coverings on person perception is influenced by the perceiver’s attitudes. We used two online experiments in which participants saw the same human target persons repeatedly appearing with and without a specific piece of clothing and had to judge the target persons...

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Autores principales: Leder, Johannes, Koßmann, Lisa, Carbon, Claus-Christian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9672466/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36408397
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.988546
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description We examined if the effect of facial coverings on person perception is influenced by the perceiver’s attitudes. We used two online experiments in which participants saw the same human target persons repeatedly appearing with and without a specific piece of clothing and had to judge the target persons’ character. In Experiment 1 (N = 101), we investigated how the wearing of a facial mask influences a person’s perception depending on the perceiver’s attitude toward measures against the COVID-19 pandemic. In Experiment 2 (N = 114), we examined the effect of wearing a head cover associated with Arabic culture on a person’s perception depending on the perceiver’s attitude toward Islam. Both studies were preregistered; both found evidence that a person’s perception is a process shaped by the personal attitudes of the perceiver as well as merely the target person’s outward appearance. Integrating previous findings, we demonstrate that facial covers, as well as head covers, operate as cues which are used by the perceivers to infer the target persons’ underlying attitudes. The judgment of the target person is shaped by the perceived attitude toward what the facial covering stereotypically symbolizes.
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spelling pubmed-96724662022-11-19 Perceptions of persons who wear face coverings are modulated by the perceivers’ attitude Leder, Johannes Koßmann, Lisa Carbon, Claus-Christian Front Neurosci Neuroscience We examined if the effect of facial coverings on person perception is influenced by the perceiver’s attitudes. We used two online experiments in which participants saw the same human target persons repeatedly appearing with and without a specific piece of clothing and had to judge the target persons’ character. In Experiment 1 (N = 101), we investigated how the wearing of a facial mask influences a person’s perception depending on the perceiver’s attitude toward measures against the COVID-19 pandemic. In Experiment 2 (N = 114), we examined the effect of wearing a head cover associated with Arabic culture on a person’s perception depending on the perceiver’s attitude toward Islam. Both studies were preregistered; both found evidence that a person’s perception is a process shaped by the personal attitudes of the perceiver as well as merely the target person’s outward appearance. Integrating previous findings, we demonstrate that facial covers, as well as head covers, operate as cues which are used by the perceivers to infer the target persons’ underlying attitudes. The judgment of the target person is shaped by the perceived attitude toward what the facial covering stereotypically symbolizes. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9672466/ /pubmed/36408397 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.988546 Text en Copyright © 2022 Leder, Koßmann and Carbon. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Perceptions of persons who wear face coverings are modulated by the perceivers’ attitude
title Perceptions of persons who wear face coverings are modulated by the perceivers’ attitude
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title_fullStr Perceptions of persons who wear face coverings are modulated by the perceivers’ attitude
title_full_unstemmed Perceptions of persons who wear face coverings are modulated by the perceivers’ attitude
title_short Perceptions of persons who wear face coverings are modulated by the perceivers’ attitude
title_sort perceptions of persons who wear face coverings are modulated by the perceivers’ attitude
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9672466/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36408397
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.988546
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