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. 2021 Jan;5(1):159-169.
doi: 10.1038/s41562-020-01007-2. Epub 2021 Jan 4.

To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply?

Benedict C Jones #  1 Lisa M DeBruine #  2 Jessica K Flake #  3 Marco Tullio Liuzza  4 Jan Antfolk  5 Nwadiogo C Arinze  6 Izuchukwu L G Ndukaihe  6 Nicholas G Bloxsom  7 Savannah C Lewis  7 Francesco Foroni  8 Megan L Willis  8 Carmelo P Cubillas  9 Miguel A Vadillo  9 Enrique Turiegano  10 Michael Gilead  11 Almog Simchon  11 S Adil Saribay  12 Nicholas C Owsley  13 Chaning Jang  13 Georgina Mburu  13 Dustin P Calvillo  14 Anna Wlodarczyk  15 Yue Qi  16 Kris Ariyabuddhiphongs  17 Somboon Jarukasemthawee  17 Harry Manley  17 Panita Suavansri  17 Nattasuda Taephant  17 Ryan M Stolier  18 Thomas R Evans  19 Judson Bonick  20 Jan W Lindemans  20 Logan F Ashworth  21 Amanda C Hahn  21 Coralie Chevallier  22 Aycan Kapucu  23 Aslan Karaaslan  23 Juan David Leongómez  24 Oscar R Sánchez  24 Eugenio Valderrama  24 Milena Vásquez-Amézquita  24 Nandor Hajdu  25   26 Balazs Aczel  26 Peter Szecsi  26 Michael Andreychik  27 Erica D Musser  28 Carlota Batres  29 Chuan-Peng Hu  30 Qing-Lan Liu  31 Nicole Legate  32 Leigh Ann Vaughn  33 Krystian Barzykowski  34 Karolina Golik  34 Irina Schmid  35 Stefan Stieger  35 Richard Artner  36 Chiel Mues  36 Wolf Vanpaemel  37 Zhongqing Jiang  38 Qi Wu  38 Gabriela M Marcu  39 Ian D Stephen  40 Jackson G Lu  41 Michael C Philipp  42 Jack D Arnal  43 Eric Hehman  3 Sally Y Xie  3 William J Chopik  44 Martin Seehuus  45 Soufian Azouaghe  46   47 Abdelkarim Belhaj  46 Jamal Elouafa  46 John P Wilson  48 Elliott Kruse  49 Marietta Papadatou-Pastou  50 Anabel De La Rosa-Gómez  51 Alan E Barba-Sánchez  51 Isaac González-Santoyo  52 Tsuyueh Hsu  53 Chun-Chia Kung  53 Hsiao-Hsin Wang  53 Jonathan B Freeman  54 Dong Won Oh  55 Vidar Schei  56 Therese E Sverdrup  56 Carmel A Levitan  57 Corey L Cook  58 Priyanka Chandel  59 Pratibha Kujur  59 Arti Parganiha  59 Noorshama Parveen  59 Atanu Kumar Pati  59 Sraddha Pradhan  59 Margaret M Singh  59 Babita Pande  60 Jozef Bavolar  61 Pavol Kačmár  61 Ilya Zakharov  62 Sara Álvarez-Solas  63 Ernest Baskin  64 Martin Thirkettle  65 Kathleen Schmidt  66 Cody D Christopherson  67 Trinity Leonis  67 Jordan W Suchow  68 Jonas K Olofsson  69 Teodor Jernsäther  69 Ai-Suan Lee  70 Jennifer L Beaudry  71 Taylor D Gogan  71 Julian A Oldmeadow  71 Benjamin Balas  72 Laura M Stevens  73 Melissa F Colloff  73 Heather D Flowe  73 Sami Gülgöz  74 Mark J Brandt  75 Karlijn Hoyer  75 Bastian Jaeger  75 Dongning Ren  75 Willem W A Sleegers  75 Joeri Wissink  75 Gwenaël Kaminski  76 Victoria A Floerke  77 Heather L Urry  77 Sau-Chin Chen  78 Gerit Pfuhl  79 Zahir Vally  80 Dana M Basnight-Brown  81 Hans I Jzerman  47 Elisa Sarda  47 Lison Neyroud  82 Touhami Badidi  83 Nicolas Van der Linden  84 Chrystalle B Y Tan  85 Vanja Kovic  86 Waldir Sampaio  87 Paulo Ferreira  88 Diana Santos  88 Debora I Burin  89 Gwendolyn Gardiner  90 John Protzko  91 Christoph Schild  92 Karolina A Ścigała  92 Ingo Zettler  92 Erin M O'Mara Kunz  93 Daniel Storage  94 Fieke M A Wagemans  95 Blair Saunders  96 Miroslav Sirota  97 Guyan V Sloane  97 Tiago J S Lima  98 Kim Uittenhove  99 Evie Vergauwe  99 Katarzyna Jaworska  2 Julia Stern  100 Karl Ask  101 Casper J J van Zyl  102 Anita Körner  103 Sophia C Weissgerber  103 Jordane Boudesseul  104 Fernando Ruiz-Dodobara  104 Kay L Ritchie  105 Nicholas M Michalak  106 Khandis R Blake  107   108 David White  107 Alasdair R Gordon-Finlayson  109 Michele Anne  110 Steve M J Janssen  110 Kean Mun Lee  110 Tonje K Nielsen  111 Christian K Tamnes  111 Janis H Zickfeld  112 Anna Dalla Rosa  113 Michelangelo Vianello  113 Ferenc Kocsor  114 Luca Kozma  114 Ádám Putz  114 Patrizio Tressoldi  115 Natalia Irrazabal  116 Armand Chatard  117 Samuel Lins  118 Isabel R Pinto  118 Johannes Lutz  119 Matus Adamkovic  120 Peter Babincak  120 Gabriel Baník  120 Ivan Ropovik  121   122 Vinet Coetzee  123 Barnaby J W Dixson  124 Gianni Ribeiro  124 Kim Peters  124 Niklas K Steffens  124 Kok Wei Tan  125 Christopher A Thorstenson  126 Ana Maria Fernandez  127 Rafael M C S Hsu  128 Jaroslava V Valentova  128 Marco A C Varella  128 Nadia S Corral-Frías  129 Martha Frías-Armenta  129 Javad Hatami  130 Arash Monajem  130 MohammadHasan Sharifian  130 Brooke Frohlich  131 Hause Lin  132 Michael Inzlicht  132 Ravin Alaei  132 Nicholas O Rule  132 Claus Lamm  133 Ekaterina Pronizius  133 Martin Voracek  133 Jerome Olsen  134 Erik Mac Giolla  135 Aysegul Akgoz  136 Asil A Özdoğru  136 Matthew T Crawford  137 Brooke Bennett-Day  138 Monica A Koehn  139 Ceylan Okan  140 Tripat Gill  141 Jeremy K Miller  142 Yarrow Dunham  143 Xin Yang  143 Sinan Alper  144 Martha Lucia Borras-Guevara  145 Sun Jun Cai  146 Dong Tiantian  146 Alexander F Danvers  147 David R Feinberg  148 Marie M Armstrong  148 Eva Gilboa-Schechtman  149 Randy J McCarthy  150 Jose Antonio Muñoz-Reyes  151 Pablo Polo  151 Victor K M Shiramazu  152 Wen-Jing Yan  153 Lilian Carvalho  154 Patrick S Forscher  82 Christopher R Chartier  7 Nicholas A Coles  155
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To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply?

Benedict C Jones et al. Nat Hum Behav. 2021 Jan.
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Abstract

Over the past 10 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 judgements 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 and correlate and rotate the dimension reduction solution. PROTOCOL REGISTRATION: The stage 1 protocol for this Registered Report was accepted in principle on 5 November 2018. The protocol, as accepted by the journal, can be found at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7611443.v1 .

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