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How head posture affects perceived cooperativeness : a cross-cultural perspective

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Date
07/2022
Author
Zhang, Dongyu
Lin, Hongfei
Perrett, David I.
Keywords
Head posture
Cooperativeness
Cross-cultural
Facial width-to-height ratio
BF Psychology
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Abstract
Previous research has tested whether culture moderates the relationship between head tilt and perceptions of a cooperation-relevant construct. In this paper, we replicated the effects of head posture on perceived traits and compared Chinese and American participants to explore whether difference in cultural background (collectivist and individualist) affects perceptual attribution. Specifically, we investigated how head posture (level, up or down) affects perceptions of cooperativeness. In Experiment 1, Chinese and American participants rated Asian and Caucasian faces in three postures for perceived cooperativeness on a seven-point Likert scale. In Experiment 2, participants ranked the cooperativeness of the three postures of the same faces. In Experiment 3, participants scrolled through face images and manually manipulated vertical head angle to maximise apparent cooperativeness. We found that for both Chinese and American participants a neutral head level posture was perceived as more cooperative than head up and down postures. The optimal head posture for maximised apparent cooperativeness was close to level but with a slight downward rotation. While there was cross-cultural consistency in perceptions, Chinese participants exhibited greater sensitivity to postural cues in their judgments of cooperation compared to American participants. Our results suggest a profound effect of posture on the perception of cooperativeness that is common across cultures and that there are additional subtle cross-cultural differences in the cues to cooperativeness.
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Zhang , D , Lin , H & Perrett , D I 2022 , ' How head posture affects perceived cooperativeness : a cross-cultural perspective ' , Acta Psychologica , vol. 227 , 103602 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103602
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Acta Psychologica
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103602
ISSN
0001-6918
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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This research was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 62076051).
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691822001172?via%3Dihub#s0105
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25377

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