TY - JOUR
T1 - Emotional expressions preferentially elicit implicit evaluations of faces also varying in race or age
AU - Craig, Belinda M.
AU - Lipp, Ottmar V.
AU - Mallan, Kimberley M.
PY - 2014/10
Y1 - 2014/10
N2 - Both facial cues of group membership (race, age, and sex) and emotional expressions can elicit implicit evaluations to guide subsequent social behavior. There is, however, little research addressing whether group membership cues or emotional expressions are more influential in the formation of implicit evaluations of faces when both cues are simultaneously present. The current study aimed to determine this. Emotional expressions but not race or age cues elicited implicit evaluations in a series of affective priming tasks with emotional Caucasian and African faces (Experiments 1 and 2) and young and old faces (Experiment 3). Spontaneous evaluations of group membership cues of race and age only occurred when those cues were task relevant, suggesting the preferential influence of emotional expressions in the formation of implicit evaluations of others when cues of race or age are not salient. Implications for implicit prejudice, face perception, and person construal are discussed.
AB - Both facial cues of group membership (race, age, and sex) and emotional expressions can elicit implicit evaluations to guide subsequent social behavior. There is, however, little research addressing whether group membership cues or emotional expressions are more influential in the formation of implicit evaluations of faces when both cues are simultaneously present. The current study aimed to determine this. Emotional expressions but not race or age cues elicited implicit evaluations in a series of affective priming tasks with emotional Caucasian and African faces (Experiments 1 and 2) and young and old faces (Experiment 3). Spontaneous evaluations of group membership cues of race and age only occurred when those cues were task relevant, suggesting the preferential influence of emotional expressions in the formation of implicit evaluations of others when cues of race or age are not salient. Implications for implicit prejudice, face perception, and person construal are discussed.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84921648537&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1037/a0037270
DO - 10.1037/a0037270
M3 - Article
C2 - 25046242
AN - SCOPUS:84921648537
VL - 14
SP - 865
EP - 877
JO - Emotion (Washington, D.C.)
JF - Emotion (Washington, D.C.)
SN - 1528-3542
IS - 5
ER -