Skin and bones: the contribution of skin tone and facial structure to racial prototypicality ratings.
Previous research reveals that a more 'African' appearance has significant social consequences, yielding more negative first impressions and harsher criminal sentencing of Black or White individuals. This study is the first to systematically assess the relative contribution of skin tone an...
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| author | Michael A Strom Leslie A Zebrowitz Shunan Zhang P Matthew Bronstad Hoon Koo Lee |
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| description | Previous research reveals that a more 'African' appearance has significant social consequences, yielding more negative first impressions and harsher criminal sentencing of Black or White individuals. This study is the first to systematically assess the relative contribution of skin tone and facial metrics to White, Black, and Korean perceivers' ratings of the racial prototypicality of faces from the same three groups. Our results revealed that the relative contribution of metrics and skin tone depended on both perceiver race and face race. White perceivers' racial prototypicality ratings were less responsive to variations in skin tone than were Black or Korean perceivers' ratings. White perceivers ratings' also were more responsive to facial metrics than to skin tone, while the reverse was true for Black perceivers. Additionally, across all perceiver groups, skin tone had a more consistent impact than metrics on racial prototypicality ratings of White faces, with the reverse for Korean faces. For Black faces, the relative impact varied with perceiver race: skin tone had a more consistent impact than metrics for Black and Korean perceivers, with the reverse for White perceivers. These results have significant implications for predicting who will experience racial prototypicality biases and from whom. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d3ac2e37fde94c78aa7110a1073f03572022-12-21T18:33:09ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032012-01-0177e4119310.1371/journal.pone.0041193Skin and bones: the contribution of skin tone and facial structure to racial prototypicality ratings.Michael A StromLeslie A ZebrowitzShunan ZhangP Matthew BronstadHoon Koo LeePrevious research reveals that a more 'African' appearance has significant social consequences, yielding more negative first impressions and harsher criminal sentencing of Black or White individuals. This study is the first to systematically assess the relative contribution of skin tone and facial metrics to White, Black, and Korean perceivers' ratings of the racial prototypicality of faces from the same three groups. Our results revealed that the relative contribution of metrics and skin tone depended on both perceiver race and face race. White perceivers' racial prototypicality ratings were less responsive to variations in skin tone than were Black or Korean perceivers' ratings. White perceivers ratings' also were more responsive to facial metrics than to skin tone, while the reverse was true for Black perceivers. Additionally, across all perceiver groups, skin tone had a more consistent impact than metrics on racial prototypicality ratings of White faces, with the reverse for Korean faces. For Black faces, the relative impact varied with perceiver race: skin tone had a more consistent impact than metrics for Black and Korean perceivers, with the reverse for White perceivers. These results have significant implications for predicting who will experience racial prototypicality biases and from whom.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3399873?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Michael A Strom Leslie A Zebrowitz Shunan Zhang P Matthew Bronstad Hoon Koo Lee Skin and bones: the contribution of skin tone and facial structure to racial prototypicality ratings. PLoS ONE |
| title | Skin and bones: the contribution of skin tone and facial structure to racial prototypicality ratings. |
| title_full | Skin and bones: the contribution of skin tone and facial structure to racial prototypicality ratings. |
| title_fullStr | Skin and bones: the contribution of skin tone and facial structure to racial prototypicality ratings. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Skin and bones: the contribution of skin tone and facial structure to racial prototypicality ratings. |
| title_short | Skin and bones: the contribution of skin tone and facial structure to racial prototypicality ratings. |
| title_sort | skin and bones the contribution of skin tone and facial structure to racial prototypicality ratings |
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