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To Which World Regions Does the Valence-Dominance Model of Social Perception Apply?
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To Which World Regions Does the Valence-Dominance Model of Social Perception Apply?

Benedict Jones, Lisa M DeBruine, Jessica Kay Flake, Marco Tullio Liuzza, Jan Antfolk, Nwadiogo Chisom Arinze, Izuchukwu Lawrence Gabriel Ndukaihe, Nicholas Bloxsom, Savannah Lewis, Francesco Foroni, …
PsyArXiv Preprints , Vol.18 May 2018
Cornell University
2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/n26dy
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Over the last ten 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 judgments 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, correlate and rotate the dimension reduction solution.

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