期刊
JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
卷 116, 期 6, 页码 966-988出版社
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000192
关键词
culture; emotional expression; extraversion; agreeableness; affiliation
资金
- National Science Foundation [BCS-1324461]
- General Research Fund Grant from the Research Grant Council, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China [442813]
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci [1324461] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
While significant research has demonstrated that people's beliefs about a group shape how they judge members of that group, few studies have examined whether people's beliefs and values regarding emotion (their ideal affect) shape how they socially judge people's emotional facial expressions. We predicted that the more people valued and ideally wanted to feel excitement and other high arousal positive states (HAP), the more affiliative (extraverted, agreeable) they would judge excited (vs. calm) faces. Moreover, because European Americans typically value HAP more than Hong Kong Chinese do, we predicted that European Americans would rate excited (vs. calm) targets as more affiliative than would Hong Kong Chinese. We found consistent support for these hypotheses in four studies. In Studies 1a and 1b, these effects held regardless of target race (White, Asian) and target sex (male, female); emerged for human as well as computer-generated faces; and did not consistently emerge for nonaffiliative social judgments (i.e., dominance, competence). In Studies 2 and 3, we replicated these findings in more realistic contexts. In Study 2, culture and ideal affect predicted participants' extraversion judgments of excited Facebook profiles. In Study 3, culture and ideal affect predicted participants' extraversion and agreeableness judgments of an excited job applicant, which increased their likelihood of hiring that applicant. Together, these findings suggest that people's culture and ideal affect shape how affiliative they judge excited (vs. calm) smiles. We discuss the role these processes may play in perpetuating biases in multicultural settings.
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