Dominance and competence face to face: Dissociations obtained with a reverse correlation approach

Oliveira, Manuel; Garcia-Marques, Teresa; Dotsch, Ron; Garcia-Marques, Leonel

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Oliveira, Manuel

Garcia-Marques, Teresa

Dotsch, Ron

Garcia-Marques, Leonel

Abstract(s)

The article explores whether the traits representing the dimensions underlying the structure of facial and non-facial impressions are similarly mapped in the face space. Two studies examine whether the trustworthiness-bydominance and the warmth-by-competence two-dimensional models overlap in face perception. In Study 1 (N = 200), we used a reverse-correlation task to obtain classification images (CIs) reflecting how each dimension is mapped onto a face. Results show that the similarity between CIs was higher between warmth and trustworthiness than between competence and dominance. In Study 2 (N = 31) the evaluations of each CI on each social dimension show a higher dissociation between dominance and competence than between trustworthiness and warmth. These results, obtained at both perceptual and judgment levels, suggest that there is only a partial correspondence between the two models that seems to be driven by the relationship that the competence and dominance dimensions establish with valence