ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2020
Ritual and the origins of first impressions.
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- Early Emergence of Spontaneous Trait Content in Children's Unconstrained Impressions of Faces.Developmental science · 2026Article
- The social learning and development of intra- and inter-ethnic sharing norms in the Congo Basin.PloS one · 2026Article
- Implicit bias and experience influence overall but not relative trustworthiness judgment of other-race faces.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Preferential looking studies of trustworthiness detection confound structural and expressive cues to facial trustworthiness.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- I believe what I see: Impact of attire and academic degree on evaluation of personality traits of a politician.Current issues in personality psychology · 2022Article
- The social learning and development of intra- and inter-ethnic sharing norms in the Congo Basin: A registered report protocol.PloS one · 2022Article
- Why is the literature on first impressions so focused on White faces?Royal Society open science · 2021Review
- Spontaneous first impressions emerge from brief training.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Young children learn first impressions of faces through social referencing.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Parents reinforce the formation of first impressions in conversation with their children.PloS one · 2021Article
- Ritual explained: interdisciplinary answers to Tinbergen's four questions.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
When encountering a stranger for the first time, adults spontaneously attribute to them a wide variety of character traits based solely on their physical appearance, most notably from their face. While these trait inferences exert a pervasive influence over our behaviour, their origins remain unclear. Whereas nativist accounts hold that first impressions are a product of gene-based natural selection, the Trait Inference Mapping framework (TIM) posits that we learn face-trait mappings ontogenetically as a result of correlated face-trait experience. Here, we examine the available anthropological evidence on ritual in order to better understand the mechanism by which first impressions from faces are acquired. Consistent with the TIM framework, we argue that examination of ritual body modification performed by communities around the world demonstrates far greater cross-cultural variability in face-trait mappings than currently appreciated. Furthermore, rituals of this type may be a powerful mechanism through which face-trait associations are transmitted from one generation to the next. This article is part of the theme issue 'Ritual renaissance: new insights into the most human of behaviours'.
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