Facing humanness: Facial width-to-height ratio predicts ascriptions of humanity.

JC Deska, EP Lloyd, K Hugenberg - Journal of personality and …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Journal of personality and social psychology, 2018psycnet.apa.org
Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 114 (1) of Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology (see record 2017-57724-002). In the article, there is a
data error in the Results section of Study 1c. The fourth sentence of the fourth paragraph
should read as follows: High fWHR targets (M= 74.39, SD= 18.25) were rated as
equivalently evolved as their low fWHR counterparts (M= 79.39, SD= 15.91).] The ascription
of mind to others is central to social cognition. Most research on the ascription of mind has …
Abstract
[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 114 (1) of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (see record 2017-57724-002). In the article, there is a data error in the Results section of Study 1c. The fourth sentence of the fourth paragraph should read as follows: High fWHR targets (M= 74.39, SD= 18.25) were rated as equivalently evolved as their low fWHR counterparts (M= 79.39, SD= 15.91).] The ascription of mind to others is central to social cognition. Most research on the ascription of mind has focused on motivated, top-down processes. The current work provides novel evidence that facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) serves as a bottom-up perceptual signal of humanness. Using a range of well-validated operational definitions of humanness, we provide evidence across 5 studies that target faces with relatively greater fWHR are seen as less than fully human compared with their relatively lower fWHR counterparts. We then present 2 ancillary studies exploring whether the fWHR-to-humanness link is mediated by previously established fWHR-trait links in the literature. Finally, 3 additional studies extend this fWHR-humanness link beyond measurements of humanness, demonstrating that the fWHR-humanness link has consequences for downstream social judgments including the sorts of crimes people are perceived to be guilty of and the social tasks for which they seem helpful. In short, we provide evidence for the hypothesis that individuals with relatively greater facial width-to-height ratio are routinely denied sophisticated, humanlike minds.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
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