Towards a better understanding of the social stigma of facial difference

P Rasset, J Mange, B Montalan, SE Stutterheim - Body Image, 2022 - Elsevier
Facial difference (FD) is not only an individual experience; it is inherently social, reflecting
interactions between social norms and individual attitudes. Often FD is stigmatized. In this …

Generalized morality culturally evolves as an adaptive heuristic in large social networks.

JC Jackson, J Halberstadt, M Takezawa… - Journal of Personality …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Why do people assume that a generous person should also be honest? Why do we even
use words like “moral” and “immoral”? We explore these questions with a new model of how …

Moral foundations of pro-choice and pro-life women

M Paruzel-Czachura, A Domurat, M Nowak - Current Psychology, 2024 - Springer
Opinions on abortion are more polarized than opinions on most other moral issues. Why are
some people pro-choice and some pro-life? Religious and political preferences play a role …

An experimental study on the role of sociosexuality in judgements of perceived trustworthiness in a mobile dating-like interface.

OL Rosa, EG Chuquichambi… - Canadian Journal of …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Photo filters have become a pervasive strategy to obtain approval in social media and
mobile dating apps. Postulating that sociosexuality is a major predictor of reactions to photos …

Assessing the roles of shape prototypicality and sexual dimorphism in ratings of the trustworthiness of faces

K Leger, J Dong, LM DeBruine, BC Jones… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Perceptions of the trustworthiness of faces predict important social outcomes, including
economic exchange and criminal sentencing decisions. However, the specific facial …

US adults accurately assess Hadza and Tsimane men's hunting ability from a single face photograph

AB Eisenbruch, KM Smith, CI Workman… - Evolution and Human …, 2024 - Elsevier
Trait inferences from faces are pervasive, but sometimes misleading. Past research
indicates Americans infer hunting and gathering ability from others' faces, but the accuracy …

Normalizing Anomalies with Mobile Exposure (NAME): Reducing implicit biases against people with facial anomalies.

N Bilici, CI Workman, S Humphries… - 2022 - philpapers.org
This pre-registered study (osf [dot] io/b9g6v) tested the hypothesis that implicit biases
towards people with visible facial differences, like scars and palsies, can be reduced …

When being unattractive is an advantage: effects of face perception on intuitive culpability judgments

A Olivera-La Rosa, LD Ayala… - … , Psychology and Law, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This experiment explored the influence of facial attractiveness and trustworthiness on guilty
judgments. We recruited 128 participants, randomly assigned to high and low time pressure …

First impressions: Do faces with scars and palsies influence warmth, competence and humanization?

M Paruzel‐Czachura, CI Workman… - British Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A glance is enough to assign psychological attributes to others. Attractiveness is associated
with positive attributes ('beauty‐is‐good'stereotype). Here, we raise the question of a similar …

Hearing prosocial stories increases Hadza hunter-gatherers' generosity in an economic game

KM Smith, IA Mabulla, CL Apicella - Human Nature, 2023 - Springer
Folk stories featuring prosocial content are ubiquitous across cultures. One explanation for
the ubiquity of such stories is that stories teach people about the local socioecology …