PSYC 308 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Stereotype Threat, In-Group Favoritism, Aversive Racism
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Baby-faced features and implications for perceptions of competence and warmth: round face, large eyes, small nose, high forehead and small chin, baby faced features incompetent but warm . Baby-faced features and implications for decision-making in law and politics: masculine features dominance and competent . Similarity and implications for perceptions of trustworthiness and sexual appeal: feminine features trustworthiness , attractive features health . Similarity and implications for helping behavior and voting behavior: implications for kinship cues: strangers with similar facial features show more helpful and cooperative behavior. Infection cues and implications for voting behavior: voter are more likely to choose leaders who physically appear to be healthier in environments that have disease threats. Attributes that people desire in leaders, and facial cues that are associated with those attributes: leaders should have dominance and competence attributes, the facial cues are: masculine and age. Specific contexts within specific leader attributes (and associated facial cues) are especially likely to be prioritized by followers: ex.
