Abstract
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 538-563 |
| Number of pages | 26 |
| Journal | British Journal of Psychology |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 17 Dec 2017 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Aug 2018 |
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Keywords
- face perception
- first impressions
- person perception
- romantic relationships
- social inferences
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Facial first impressions and partner preference models : comparable or distinct underlying structures? / Palomares, Jennifer K South (Corresponding Author); Sutherland, Clare AM; Young, Andrew.
In: British Journal of Psychology, Vol. 109, No. 3, 08.2018, p. 538-563.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Facial first impressions and partner preference models
T2 - comparable or distinct underlying structures?
AU - Palomares, Jennifer K South
AU - Sutherland, Clare AM
AU - Young, Andrew
N1 - Funding Information: Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders. Grant Number: CE110001021 ARC Discovery Award. Grant Number: DP170104602
PY - 2018/8
Y1 - 2018/8
N2 - Given the frequency of relationships nowadays initiated online, where impressions from face photographs may influence relationship initiation, it is important to understand how facial first impressions might be used in such contexts. We therefore examined the applicability of a leading model of verbally expressed partner preferences to impressions derived from real face images and investigated how the factor structure of first impressions based on potential partner preference-related traits might relate to a more general model of facial first impressions. Participants rated 1,000 everyday face photographs on 12 traits selected to represent (Fletcher, et al. 1999, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 72) verbal model of partner preferences. Facial trait judgements showed an underlying structure that largely paralleled the tripartite structure of Fletcher et al.'s verbal preference model, regardless of either face gender or participant gender. Furthermore, there was close correspondence between the verbal partner preference model and a more general tripartite model of facial first impressions derived from a different literature (Sutherland et al., 2013, Cognition, 127, 105), suggesting an underlying correspondence between verbal conceptual models of romantic preferences and more general models of facial first impressions.
AB - Given the frequency of relationships nowadays initiated online, where impressions from face photographs may influence relationship initiation, it is important to understand how facial first impressions might be used in such contexts. We therefore examined the applicability of a leading model of verbally expressed partner preferences to impressions derived from real face images and investigated how the factor structure of first impressions based on potential partner preference-related traits might relate to a more general model of facial first impressions. Participants rated 1,000 everyday face photographs on 12 traits selected to represent (Fletcher, et al. 1999, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 72) verbal model of partner preferences. Facial trait judgements showed an underlying structure that largely paralleled the tripartite structure of Fletcher et al.'s verbal preference model, regardless of either face gender or participant gender. Furthermore, there was close correspondence between the verbal partner preference model and a more general tripartite model of facial first impressions derived from a different literature (Sutherland et al., 2013, Cognition, 127, 105), suggesting an underlying correspondence between verbal conceptual models of romantic preferences and more general models of facial first impressions.
KW - face perception
KW - first impressions
KW - person perception
KW - romantic relationships
KW - social inferences
UR - http://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/publications/facial-first-impressions-and-partner-preference-models(353f9091-04aa-4b76-afbf-96eaaf076d76).html
U2 - 10.1111/bjop.12286
DO - 10.1111/bjop.12286
M3 - Article
VL - 109
SP - 538
EP - 563
JO - British Journal of Psychology
JF - British Journal of Psychology
SN - 0007-1269
IS - 3
ER -