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Review
. 2018 Mar;22(3):197-200.
doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2017.12.003. Epub 2018 Jan 30.

A Dynamic Structure of Social Trait Space

Ryan M Stolier  1 , Eric Hehman  2 , Jonathan B Freeman  3
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A Dynamic Structure of Social Trait Space

Ryan M Stolier et al. Trends Cogn Sci. 2018 Mar.

Abstract

Facial appearance evokes robust impressions of other people's personality traits. Recent research suggests that the trait space arising from face-based impressions shifts due to context and social cognitive factors. We suggest a novel framework in which multiple bottom-up and top-down processes mutually determine a dynamic rather than fixed trait space.

Keywords: dimensional models; face evaluation; person perception; representational similarity analysis; social cognition.

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