Dress is a fundamental component of person perception

N Hester, E Hehman - Personality and Social Psychology …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Academic Abstract Clothing, hairstyle, makeup, and accessories influence first impressions.
However, target dress is notably absent from current theories and models of person …

How Americans Judge: A Topology of Moral Communities

J Chu, S Lee - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the …, 2024 - rsfjournal.org
Despite research on differences in moral logics across demographic categories, the overall
community structure in how Americans share standards of judgment, and hence a …

Pursuing safety in social connection regulates the risk-regulation, social-safety, and behavioral-immune systems.

SL Murray, JK McNulty, J Xia… - Journal of Personality …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
A new goal-systems model is proposed to help explain when individuals will protect
themselves against the risks inherent to social connection. This model assumes that people …

The stigmatized perceiver: Exploring the implications of social stigma for cross‐race face processing and memory

L Hinzman, EP Lloyd… - Social and Personality …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The human face is an important source of information, such as race or ethnicity, which can
guide social interaction and outcomes. Research suggests that compared to majority and …

Covariation between formidability inferences and perceptions of men's preferred humor styles

M Brown, RE Tracy, K Boykin - Personality and Individual Differences, 2022 - Elsevier
Individuals infer men's formidability through various facial and bodily features. Such
inferences covary with perceptions of men's personalities and motivational states, potentially …

Mate evaluation theory.

PW Eastwick, EJ Finkel, S Joel - Psychological Review, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
There are two unresolved puzzles in the literature examining how people evaluate mates
(ie, prospective or current romantic/sexual partners). First, compatibility is theoretically …

Careless responding: Why many findings are spurious or spuriously inflated

MD Stosic, BA Murphy, F Duong… - … in Methods and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Contrary to long-standing conventional wisdom, failing to exclude data from carelessly
responding participants on questionnaires or behavioral tasks will frequently result in false …

Threats and opportunities: Independent dimensions of goal relevance shape social cognition and behavior.

R Neel, B Lassetter, EQY Lam - American Psychologist, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
People pursue goals. They seek to build friendships, find romantic partners, maintain close
relationships, gain social status and resources, and stay healthy and safe. But pursuing …

Expectations of men's use of harsh parental discipline through formidability inferences.

M Brown, DF Sacco, S Donahoe… - Evolutionary …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
One modality to estimate men's formidability and aggressive proclivities is their facial width-
to-height ratio (fWHR). Such inferences may further influence perceptions of men as fathers …

Contextual factors that heighten interest in coalitional alliances with men possessing formidable facial structures

M Brown, DF Sacco, N Barbaro, KM Drea - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
Individuals use facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) to infer men's formidability. We
hypothesized that fWHR assessments would form a basis for men's coalitional value, with …