I'm taking a year off to explore other interests and gain work experience. I've had a lot of fun hearing about other people's research and conducting my own, so my goal is to eventually attend graduate school to do more research in social/personality psychology.
Are You Seeing What I’m Seeing? People Use Physical Cues Idiosyncratically When Forming Moral Character Impressions
Abstract:
Most models and empirical work investigating person perception processes considers how the typical person forms impressions, but it is possible that there are individual differences in how people form impressions of others. Using a diverse sample (N = 308), the current work adopted a highly-repeated within-person approach to study if and how people use physical cues in different ways to form moral character impressions based on photos of people’s faces. Results suggest that some people perceived others as more moral than others in general and that indeed, people do use a majority of cues in idiosyncratic ways. Importantly, at least two factors seemed to explain idiosyncratic cue use: people’s moral values and their general perceptual tendencies to view others positively or negatively both predicted how strongly they used various cues. Implications for accuracy and bias are discussed.
Supervisor: Dr. Erika Carlson
Email: victoria.pringle@mail.utoronto.ca