| He throws like a girl (but only when he's sad): Emotion affects sex-decoding of biological motion displays. | |
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PMID: 21349506 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Gender stereotypes have been implicated in sex-typed perceptions of facial emotion. Such interpretations were recently called into question because facial cues of emotion are confounded with sexually dimorphic facial cues. Here we examine the role of visual cues and gender stereotypes in perceptions of biological motion displays, thus overcoming the morphological confounding inherent in facial displays. In four studies, participants' judgments revealed gender stereotyping. Observers accurately perceived emotion from biological motion displays (Study 1), and this affected sex categorizations. Angry displays were overwhelmingly judged to be men; sad displays were judged to be women (Studies 2-4). Moreover, this pattern remained strong when stimuli were equated for velocity (Study 3). We argue that these results were obtained because perceivers applied gender stereotypes of emotion to infer sex category (Study 4). Implications for both vision sciences and social psychology are discussed. |
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Kerri L Johnson; Lawrie S McKay; Frank E Pollick |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-2-22 |
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Title: Cognition Volume: - ISSN: 1873-7838 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Feb |
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Created Date: 2011-2-25 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0367541 Medline TA: Cognition Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
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Departments of Communication Studies and Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. |
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