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Citation

Alt NP, Goodale B, Lick DJ, Johnson KL. Soc. Psychol. Pers. Sci. 2019; 10(2): 152-159.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1948550617731498

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Everyday, we visually perceive people not only in isolation but also in groups. Yet, visual person perception research typically focuses on inferences made about isolated individuals. By integrating social vision and visual ensemble coding, we present novel evidence that (a) perceivers rapidly (500 ms) extract a group's ratio of men to women and (b) both explicit judgments of threat and indirect evaluative priming of threat increase as the ratio of men to women in a group increases. Furthermore, participants' estimates of the number of men, and not perceived men's coalition, mediate the relationship between the ratio of men to women and threat judgments. These findings demonstrate the remarkable efficiency of perceiving a group's sex ratio and downstream evaluative inferences made from these percepts. Overall, this work advances person perception research into the novel domain of people perception, revealing how the visually perceived sex ratio of groups impacts social judgments.


Language: en

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