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20682754

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-9-29
pubmed:abstractText
Perceivers can accurately judge a face's sexual orientation, but the perceptual mechanisms mediating this remain obscure. The authors hypothesized that stereotypes casting gays and lesbians as gender "inverts," in cultural circulation for a century and a half, lead perceivers to use gendered facial cues to infer sexual orientation. Using computer-generated faces, Study 1 showed that as two facial dimensions (shape and texture) became more gender inverted, targets were more likely to be judged as gay or lesbian. Study 2 showed that real faces appearing more gender inverted were more likely to be judged as gay or lesbian. Furthermore, the stereotypic use of gendered cues influenced the accurate judgment of sexual orientation. Although using gendered cues increased the accuracy of sexual orientation judgments overall, Study 3 showed that judgments were reliably mistaken for targets that countered stereotypes. Together, the findings demonstrate that perceivers utilize gendered facial cues to glean another's sexual orientation, and this influences the accuracy or error of judgments.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1552-7433
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
36
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1318-31
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-2-10
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Sexual orientation perception involves gendered facial cues.
pubmed:affiliation
Tufts University, Psychology Department, 490 Boston Ave., Medford, MA 02155, USA. jon.freeman@tufts.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Randomized Controlled Trial