The accurate judgment of social network characteristics in the lab and field using thin slices of the behavioral stream

Mobasseri, Sanaz; Stein, Daniel H; Carney, Dana R.

doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2021.09.002

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“…Relatedly, one set of processes may be involved in visually extracting information about groups, which then intersects with processes associated with mentally representing and remembering those groups later. For example, some work has considered how individuals come to understand and represent relational systems and network connections within groups (e.g., social-network schemas) partly on the basis of information they glean automatically and visually (Alt et al, 2021;Brands, 2013;Casciaro et al, 1999;Kilduff & Krackhardt, 1994;Mobasseri et al, 2021;Smith et al, 2020;Yu & Kilduff, 2020). Such information about specific relationships and the overall group structure likely complements people's knowledge of who belongs in the group or subgroups, entitativity, and fault lines that may exist within the group, all of which is updated dynamically over time.…”

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Person Perception, Meet People Perception: Exploring the Social Vision of Groups

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Phillips

2021

Perspect Psychol Sci

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Groups, teams, and collectives —people—are incredibly important to human behavior. People live in families, work in teams, and celebrate and mourn together in groups. Despite the huge variety of human group activity and its fundamental importance to human life, social-psychological research on person perception has overwhelmingly focused on its namesake, the person, rather than expanding to consider people perception. By looking to two unexpected partners, the vision sciences and organization behavior, we find emerging work that presents a path forward, building a foundation for understanding how people perceive other people. And yet this nascent field is missing critical insights that scholars of social vision might offer: specifically, for example, the chance to connect perception to behavior through the mediators of cognition and motivational processes. Here, we review emerging work across the vision and social sciences to extract core principles of people perception: efficiency, capacity, and complexity. We then consider complexity in more detail, focusing on how people perception modifies person-perception processes and enables the perception of group emergent properties as well as group dynamics. Finally, we use these principles to discuss findings and outline areas fruitful for future work. We hope that fellow scholars take up this people-perception call.

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Person Perception, Meet People Perception: Exploring the Social Vision of Groups

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Phillips

2021

Perspect Psychol Sci

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“…Interestingly, previous research has also shown that people not only make these judgements but are also surprisingly accurate and in high agreement when inferring social traits from face-based first impressions 10 . Using "thin slices" of exposure to images or short videos of strangers, there is evidence of accurate judgements of personality [11][12][13][14] , dishonesty 15 , violence 16 , sexual orientation 17,18 , and social status [19][20][21] . Considering we can perceive numerous social traits from faces alone with real-world consequences and remarkable accuracy, there may be certain aspects of a person's character which are particularly informative early on in impression formation.…”

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The relationship between face-based first impressions and perceptions of purity and compared to other moral violations

McCulloch¹,

Steele²,

Gheorghiu³

2023

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Morality is a trait which is perceived and prioritized in face-perception; however, immorality is not homogenous with two common categories being purity (e.g., cannibalism and incest) and autonomy violations (e.g., theft and corruption). The current research establishes whether both purity and autonomy violations are associated with low facial morality as well as exploring whether they are also associated with other distinct facial traits. Participants were asked to rate unfamiliar faces on either one social trait (competence, capability, likeability, friendliness, honesty, trustworthiness, dominance, or masculinity) or their likelihood to commit a purity or autonomy violation. Likelihood to commit all moral violations was predicted by lower facial morality. Additionally, all purity violations were associated with male gender and, most often, low dominance while autonomy violations and the purity violation of cannibalism were associated with high dominance. Within these categories, stealing was associated with lower competence, eating a pet dog was associated with older age, and both corruption and incest were associated with white ethnicity. This suggests low facial morality is consistently associated with perceived likelihood to commit immoral actions. However, data also suggests a distinction both between and within autonomy and purity categories in other facial traits associated with these acts.

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“…Bem’s Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) is the most widely used scale to measure gender roles (Hoffman & Borders, 2001) and it is still studied (e.g., Donnelly & Twenge, 2017; Keener & Mehta, 2017; Lips, 2017; Martin et al, 2017) and used frequently in recent literature (e.g., Eggenberger et al, 2021; Mobasseri et al, 2022; Lopez-Fernandez et al, 2019; Saint-Michel, 2018). The consistent use of this measure also enables the investigation of long-term value changes in gender roles (e.g., Donnelly & Twenge, 2017), making it difficult to find a substitute.…”

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Are androgynous people more creative than gender conforming people?

Liu¹,

Damian²

2022

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Psychological androgyny refers to possessing both masculine and feminine characteristics. Sandra Bem (1974) proposed that androgynous people are more creative, because they are less limited by gender boundaries. This so-called androgyny-creativity effect contributes to the gender equality movement by ameliorating stereotypes about people who stepped out of gender boundaries. However, the evidentiary value of the available research testing this hypothesis has been limited by suboptimal (by current standards) methodology, such as small samples, antiquated statistical analysis, and inconsistent measurement. The current study attempted to replicate the androgyny-creativity effect in a large sample (N = 672), with both self-report and behavioral measures of creativity, and following both original and optimized statistical analyses. We found that androgynous group reported themselves to be more creative than the gender conforming group, but they did not score higher than the latter on behavioral creativity. This suggests that the androgyny-creativity effect (a) could be just a popular lay theory, (b) might only hold for certain types of creativity, and (c) might be a true effect but no longer exist due to societal changes in gender roles.

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The accurate judgment of social network characteristics in the lab and field using thin slices of the behavioral stream

Cited by 12 publications

References 147 publications

Person Perception, Meet People Perception: Exploring the Social Vision of Groups

Person Perception, Meet People Perception: Exploring the Social Vision of Groups

The relationship between face-based first impressions and perceptions of purity and compared to other moral violations

Are androgynous people more creative than gender conforming people?

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