To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply?

Jones, B. C. et al. (2021) To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply? Nature Human Behaviour, 5(1), pp. 159-169. (doi: 10.1038/s41562-020-01007-2) (PMID:33398150)

Abstract

Over the past 10 years, Oosterhof and Todorov’s valence–dominance model has emerged as the most prominent account of how people evaluate faces on social dimensions. In this model, two dimensions (valence and dominance) underpin social judgements of faces. Because this model has primarily been developed and tested in Western regions, it is unclear whether these findings apply to other regions. We addressed this question by replicating Oosterhof and Todorov’s methodology across 11 world regions, 41 countries and 11,570 participants. When we used Oosterhof and Todorov’s original analysis strategy, the valence–dominance model generalized across regions. When we used an alternative methodology to allow for correlated dimensions, we observed much less generalization. Collectively, these results suggest that, while the valence–dominance model generalizes very well across regions when dimensions are forced to be orthogonal, regional differences are revealed when we use different extraction methods and correlate and rotate the dimension reduction solution.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: DeBruine, Professor Lisa and Jones, Professor Benedict
• Authors: Jones, B. C., Debruine, L. M., Flake, J. K., Liuzza, M. T., Antfolk, J., Arinze, N. C., Ndukaihe, I. L. G., Bloxsom, N., Lewis, S., Foroni, F., Willis, M., Cubillas, C. P., Vadillo, M. A., Gilead, M., Simchon, A., Saribay, S. A., Owsley, N. C., Calvillo, D. P., Włodarczyk, A., Qi, Y., Ariyabuddhiphongs, K., Jarukasemthawee, S., Manley, H., Suavansri, P., Taephant, N., Stolier, R. M., Evans, T. R., Bonick, J., Lindemans, J. W., Ashworth, L. F., Chevallier, C., Kapucu, A., Karaaslan, A., Leongómez, J. D., Sánchez, O. R., Valderrama Escallón, E., Vásquez-Amézquita, M., Aczel, B., Hajdu, N., Szecsi, P., Andreychik, M., Musser, E. D., Batres, C., Hu, C.-P., Liu, Q.-L., Legate, N., Vaughn, L. A., Barzykowski, K., Golik, K., Schmid, I., Stieger, S., Artner, R., Mues, C. K. K., Van Paemel, W., Jiang, Z., Wu, Q., Marcu, G., Stephen, I., Lu, J. G., Philipp, M. C., Arnal, J. D., Hehman, E., Xie, S. Y., Chopik, W. J., Seehuus, M., Azouaghe, S., Belhaj, A., Elouafa, J., Wilson, J. P., Kruse, E. T., Papadatou-Pastou, M., Barba-Sanchez, A., De La Rosa Gomez, A., González-Santoyo, I., Hsu, T., Kung, C.-C., Hsiao-Hsin, W., Freeman, J. B., Oh, D., Schei, V., Sverdrup, T. E., Levitan, C., Cook, C. L., Chandel, P., Kujur, P., Parganiha, A., Parveen, N., Pati, A. K., Pradhan, S., Singh, M. M., Pande, B., Bavolar, J., Kačmár, P., Zakharov, I., Solas, S. Á., Baskin, E., Thirkettle, M., Schmidt, K., Christopherson, C. D., Suchow, J. W., Olofsson, J., Lee, A.-S., Beaudry, J. L., Gogan, T. D., Oldmeadow, J., Dixson, B., Stevens, L., Ribeiro, G., Brandt, M. J., Hoyer, K., Jaeger, B., Ren, D., Sleegers, W., Wissink, J., Kaminski, G., Floerke, V. A., Urry, H. L., Chen, S.-C., Pfuhl, G., Vally, Z., Basnight-Brown, D., IJzerman, H., Sarda, E., Badidi, T., Van der Linden, N., Tan, C. B.Y., Kovic, V., Colloff, M. F., Flowe, H. D., Burin, D.I., Gardiner, G., Protzko, J., Schild, C., Scigala, K., Zettler, I., O'Mara Kunz, E. M., Storage, D., Wagemans, F. M. A., Saunders, B., Sirota, M., Sloane, G., Lima, T. J. S., Uittenhove, K., Vergauwe, E., Jaworska, K., Carvalho, L., Ask, K., Van Zyl, C., Körner, A., Weissgerber, S. C., Boudesseul, J., Ruiz-Dodobara, F., Ritchie, K. L., Michalak, N. M., Blake, K., White, D., Gordon-Finlayson, A. R., Anne, M., Janssen, S. M.J., Lee, K. M., Nielsen, T. K., Tamnes, C. K., Zickfeld, J., Dalla Rosa, A., Kocsor, F., Kozma, L., Putz, A., Tressoldi, P., Vianello, M., Irrazabal, N., Chatard, A., Lins, S., Pinto, I. R., Lutz, J., Adamkovic, M., Babinčák, P., Baník, G., Ropovik, I., Coetzee, V., Peters, K. O., Steffens, N. K., Tan, K., Wei, T. K., Thorstenson, C. A., Fernandez, A. M., Hsu, R. M.C.S., Valentova, J. V., Varella, M. A. C., Corral-Frías, N. S., Frias-Armenta, M., Hatami, J., Monajem, A., Sharifian, M. H., Frohlich, B., Lin, H., Inzlicht, M., Lamm, C., Pronizius, E., Voracek, M., Olsen, J., Mac Giolla, E., Akgoz, A., Özdoğru, A. A., Crawford, M. T., Bennett-Day, B., Koehn, M. A., Okan, C., Ansari, D., Gill, T., Miller, J. K., Dunham, Y., Yang, X., Alper, S., Alaei, R., Lucia, M., Cai, S. J., Danvers, A. F., Dranseika, V., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., Hahn, A. C., Jang, C., Marshall, T., McCarthy, R. J., Muñoz-Reyes, J. A., Muñoz-reyes, J.A., Neyroud, L., Polo, P., Rule, N., Shiramizu, V. K. M., Tiantian, D., Turiegano, E., Yan, W.-J., Balas, B., Ferreira, P. R.S., Junger, J., Mburu, G. W., Sampaio, W. M., Santos, D. R., Gulgoz, S., Stern, J., Forscher, P. S., Chartier, C. R., and Coles, N. A.
• College/School: College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Psychology & Neuroscience; College of Science and Engineering > School of Psychology
• Journal Name: Nature Human Behaviour
• Publisher: Nature Research
• ISSN: 2397-3374
• ISSN (Online): 2397-3374
• Published Online: 04 January 2021
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2021 The Authors
• First Published: First published in Nature Human Behaviour 5(1): 159-169
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy

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Project Code	Award No	Project Name	Principal Investigator	Funder's Name	Funder Ref	Lead Dept
172112		KINSHIP: How do humans recognise kin?	Lisa Debruine	European Research Council (ERC)	647910	NP - Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi)