The effects of facial expressions on judgments of others when observing two-person confrontation scenes from a third person perspective
When building personal relationships, it is important to select optimal partners, even based on the first meeting. This study was inspired by the idea that people who smile are considered more trustworthy and attractive. However, this may not always be true in daily life. Previous studies have used...
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| description | When building personal relationships, it is important to select optimal partners, even based on the first meeting. This study was inspired by the idea that people who smile are considered more trustworthy and attractive. However, this may not always be true in daily life. Previous studies have used a relatively simple method of judging others by presenting a photograph of one person’s face. To move beyond this approach and examine more complex situations, we presented the faces of two people confronted with each other to participants and asked them to judge them from a third-person perspective. Through three experiments, participants were asked to judge which of the two persons was more appropriate for forming alliances, more trustworthy, or more attractive, respectively. In all experiments, images were shown for a short (500 ms) or a long time (5 s). In all three experiments, the results showed that participants were more likely to choose persons with happy faces than those with neutral, sad, or angry faces when the image presentation was short. Contrarily, the facial expressions did not affect those judgments when the image presentation was long. Instead, judgments were correlated with personality estimated from the model’s neutral face in a single-person presentation. These results suggest that although facial expressions can affect the judgments of others when observing two-person confrontations from a third-person perspective, when participants have more time to elaborate their judgments, they go beyond expressions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c57116fbd4b34d9c8c6f0bc2135eec5e2022-12-22T03:49:09ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-09-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.856336856336The effects of facial expressions on judgments of others when observing two-person confrontation scenes from a third person perspectiveYoshiyuki Ueda0Sakiko Yoshikawa1Institute for the Future of Human Society, Kyoto University, Kyoto, JapanFaculty of Art and Design, Kyoto University of the Arts, Kyoto, JapanWhen building personal relationships, it is important to select optimal partners, even based on the first meeting. This study was inspired by the idea that people who smile are considered more trustworthy and attractive. However, this may not always be true in daily life. Previous studies have used a relatively simple method of judging others by presenting a photograph of one person’s face. To move beyond this approach and examine more complex situations, we presented the faces of two people confronted with each other to participants and asked them to judge them from a third-person perspective. Through three experiments, participants were asked to judge which of the two persons was more appropriate for forming alliances, more trustworthy, or more attractive, respectively. In all experiments, images were shown for a short (500 ms) or a long time (5 s). In all three experiments, the results showed that participants were more likely to choose persons with happy faces than those with neutral, sad, or angry faces when the image presentation was short. Contrarily, the facial expressions did not affect those judgments when the image presentation was long. Instead, judgments were correlated with personality estimated from the model’s neutral face in a single-person presentation. These results suggest that although facial expressions can affect the judgments of others when observing two-person confrontations from a third-person perspective, when participants have more time to elaborate their judgments, they go beyond expressions.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.856336/fullsocial interactionfacial expressionintuitive judgmentdeliberative judgmentpersonality traits |
| spellingShingle | Yoshiyuki Ueda Sakiko Yoshikawa The effects of facial expressions on judgments of others when observing two-person confrontation scenes from a third person perspective Frontiers in Psychology social interaction facial expression intuitive judgment deliberative judgment personality traits |
| title | The effects of facial expressions on judgments of others when observing two-person confrontation scenes from a third person perspective |
| title_full | The effects of facial expressions on judgments of others when observing two-person confrontation scenes from a third person perspective |
| title_fullStr | The effects of facial expressions on judgments of others when observing two-person confrontation scenes from a third person perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effects of facial expressions on judgments of others when observing two-person confrontation scenes from a third person perspective |
| title_short | The effects of facial expressions on judgments of others when observing two-person confrontation scenes from a third person perspective |
| title_sort | effects of facial expressions on judgments of others when observing two person confrontation scenes from a third person perspective |
| topic | social interaction facial expression intuitive judgment deliberative judgment personality traits |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.856336/full |
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