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You Are What You Emote: Emotional Facial Expressions Impact Sexual Orientation Judgments

  • Joshua Tabak
  • Sapna Cheryan
In the symposium, Beyond Right/Wrong: Novel Approaches to Understanding Accuracy and Consensus in Social Perception, chairs: Joshua A. Tabak and David J. Lick, 25th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C. (2013)
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Abstract

Emotions convey more than sentiment. We found that gendered emotional expressions modulated sexual orientation judgments from faces, consistent with stereotypes of gay individuals as gender-atypical. This is the first research on accuracy of person perceptions at the intersection of stable (sexual orientation) and fleeting (emotion) person characteristics.

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