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Effects of Nonverbal Immediacy and Similarity on Perceptions of Likability and Friendship Potential: First Impressions of U.S. and Middle Eastern Students on Zoom
Using a pre-test post-test design, this study extends research on the principle of immediacy by investigating how enacted levels of nonverbal...
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The social factors behind the mask: contextual effects on trait impressions from faces wearing a face mask
The presence of face masks can significantly impact processes related to trait impressions from faces. In the present research, we focused on trait...
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Camouflaging Intent, First Impressions, and Age of ASC Diagnosis in Autistic Men and Women
Camouflaging of autistic traits may make autism harder to diagnose. The current study evaluated the relations between camouflaging intent, first...
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Dostoyevsky’s Conjecture: Evaluating Personality Impressions Based on Laughter
In 1875, Fyodor Dostoyevsky proposed that an individual’s laughter grants special insight into their character. To evaluate this conjecture, we...
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The illusory certainty: Information repetition and impressions of truth enhance subjective confidence in validity judgments independently of the factual truth
People not only judge repeatedly perceived information as more likely being true (the so-called truth effect) they also tend to be more confident...
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The effect of facial occlusion on facial impressions of trustworthiness and dominance
Recognizing the role that facial appearance plays in guiding social interactions, here we investigated how occlusions of the bottom-face region...
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Managed postures modulate social impressions after limited and unlimited time exposure
People often try to improve their social impressions by performing “good” postures, particularly when others are evaluating them. We aimed to...
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The role of “communion” and “agency” in college students’ first impressions of their peers
Four studies were conducted to test the main predictions of Abele and Wojciszke’s Dual Perspective Model of Agency and Communion, DPM-AC model. The...
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Best-worst scaling improves measurement of first impressions
A common goal in psychological research is the measurement of subjective impressions, such as first impressions of faces. These impressions are...
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First Impressions of Physicians According to Their Physical and Social Group Characteristics
People often make inferences about others from the physical appearance and social group characteristics revealed through their photographs. Because...
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Nonverbal Expressivity, Physical Attractiveness, and Liking: First Impression to Established Relationship
This study compared the effects of attractiveness and expressivity on liking at three important stages in a relationship: (a) at zero-acquaintance,...
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The Impact of Anti-COVID Face Masks on Romantic Attraction: An Expectancy Violation Perspective
Drawing upon expectancy violation theory (EVT), we conducted an experiment to investigate the effects of anti-COVID masks on attraction in romantic...
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Perceptions of artificial intelligence system's aptitude to judge morality and competence amidst the rise of Chatbots
This paper examines how humans judge the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) to evaluate human attributes, specifically focusing on two key...
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Highlighting Clients’ Strengths: The Benefits of Using the Balanced Diagnostic Impressions (DICE-PM) Model
People are generally prone to the negativity bias, and subsequently, psychological assessment has historically focused on pathology. Breaking with...
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Status cues and moral judgment: Formal attire induces moral favoritism but not for hypocrites
Status-related impressions influence important interpersonal dynamics, including moral judgments of good or bad, and right or wrong, whereas these...
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Aesthetic preferences for prototypical movements in human actions
A commonplace sight is seeing other people walk. Our visual system specializes in processing such actions. Notably, we are not only quick to...
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Impact of female and male university instructors revealing their high-functioning autism to their students
High-functioning autism, informally known as Asperger’s, involves diminished social skills considered important for university instruction. In an...
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Trait Impressions from Faces Demonstrate Preserved Social Intelligence in Older Adulthood
The social intelligence manifested in first impressions from faces is generally preserved in normal aging. Older adults’ impressions of the...
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Quantifying the unquantifiable: the color of cinematic lighting and its effect on audience’s impressions towards the appearance of film characters
This study is an attempt to investigate the ability of different colors used in cinematic lighting designs to affect audience’s impressions towards...
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Observing Interviewees’ Inner Self: How Authenticity Cues in Job Interviews Relate to Interview and Job Performance
Job interviews are among the most popular selection methods. Previous research suggests that interviewees who are perceived as being authentic are...
