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Gender differences in face-based trait perception and social decision making

He, Zoe W. ; Yu, Angela J. (2021)
Gender differences in face-based trait perception and social decision making.
43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2021). Vienna, Austria (26.-29.07.2021)
Konferenzveröffentlichung, Bibliographie

Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)

Despite recent progress in promoting gender equality, gender bias continues to post challenges to women's career advancement. Here, we use a statistically grounded framework to investigate how face-based social perception may contribute to gender biases in political and job application settings. By analyzing a large face dataset and performing a novel behavioral experiment, we find that: 1) female faces exhibit stronger anti-correlation between perceived trustworthiness and dominance, 2) this anti-correlation is due to distinct sets of facial features humans utilize to assess female and male faces for trustworthiness and dominance, 3) perceived dominance positively contributes to social decision preferences for female faces, contrary to prior suggestions that perceived dominance affects female candidates negatively, and 4) the anti-correlated perception of trustworthiness and dominance put females at a disadvantage in competitive environments. More generally, our findings reveal the important role of face-based trait perceptions underlying gender biases in social decision making.

Typ des Eintrags: Konferenzveröffentlichung
Erschienen: 2021
Autor(en): He, Zoe W. ; Yu, Angela J.
Art des Eintrags: Bibliographie
Titel: Gender differences in face-based trait perception and social decision making
Sprache: Englisch
Publikationsjahr: 2021
Verlag: Curran Associates
Buchtitel: Comparative cognition - animal minds : 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Band einer Reihe: 3
Veranstaltungstitel: 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2021)
Veranstaltungsort: Vienna, Austria
Veranstaltungsdatum: 26.-29.07.2021
URL / URN: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/20b768jp
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract):

Despite recent progress in promoting gender equality, gender bias continues to post challenges to women's career advancement. Here, we use a statistically grounded framework to investigate how face-based social perception may contribute to gender biases in political and job application settings. By analyzing a large face dataset and performing a novel behavioral experiment, we find that: 1) female faces exhibit stronger anti-correlation between perceived trustworthiness and dominance, 2) this anti-correlation is due to distinct sets of facial features humans utilize to assess female and male faces for trustworthiness and dominance, 3) perceived dominance positively contributes to social decision preferences for female faces, contrary to prior suggestions that perceived dominance affects female candidates negatively, and 4) the anti-correlated perception of trustworthiness and dominance put females at a disadvantage in competitive environments. More generally, our findings reveal the important role of face-based trait perceptions underlying gender biases in social decision making.

Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): 03 Fachbereich Humanwissenschaften
03 Fachbereich Humanwissenschaften > Institut für Psychologie
Zentrale Einrichtungen
Zentrale Einrichtungen > Centre for Cognitive Science (CCS)
Hinterlegungsdatum: 27 Okt 2023 11:03
Letzte Änderung: 20 Nov 2023 13:43
PPN: 513350489
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