ArticlePsychological science2021
Little Between-Region and Between-Country Variance When People Form Impressions of Others.
Article in Psychological science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- The Israeli Face Database (IFD): A multi-ethnic database of faces with supporting social norming data.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- How trait impressions of faces shape subsequent mental state inferences.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
- Implicit bias and experience influence overall but not relative trustworthiness judgment of other-race faces.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Multimodal investigations of emotional face processing and social trait judgment of faces.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2024Review
- Stereotypes shape response competition when forming impressions.Group processes & intergroup relations : GPIR · 2023Article
- Dress is a Fundamental Component of Person Perception.Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc · 2023Review
- Comprehensive Social Trait Judgments From Faces in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Psychological science · 2023Article
- Everyday Perceiver-Context Influences on Impression Formation: No Evidence of Consistent Effects.Personality & social psychology bulletin · 2023Article
- The project implicit international dataset: Measuring implicit and explicit social group attitudes and stereotypes across 34 countries (2009-2019).Behavior research methods · 2023Article
- Ethics 4.0: Ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare Mediated by Social Robots.International journal of social robotics · 2023Article
- Understanding trait impressions from faces.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2022Article
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Abstract
To what extent are perceivers' first impressions of other individuals dictated by cultural background rather than personal idiosyncrasies? To address this question, we analyzed a globally diverse data set containing 11,481 adult participants' ratings of 120 targets across 45 countries (2,597,624 total ratings). Across ratings of 13 traits, we found that perceivers' idiosyncratic differences accounted for approximately 29% of variance and impressions on their own and approximately 16% in conjunction with target characteristics. However, country- and region-level differences, here a proxy for culture, accounted for 3.2% on average (i.e., both alone and in conjunction with target characteristics). We replicated this pattern of effects in a preregistered analysis on an entirely novel data set containing 7,007 participants' ratings of 100 targets across 41 countries (24,886 total ratings). Together, these results suggest that perceivers' impressions of other people are largely dictated by their individual characteristics and local environment rather than their cultural background.
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