You Are What You Emote: Emotional Facial Expressions Impact Sexual Orientation Judgments
Venue
In the symposium, Beyond Right/Wrong: Novel Approaches to
Understanding Accuracy and Consensus in Social Perception, chairs: Joshua A. Tabak
and David J. Lick, 25th Annual Convention of the Association for
Psychological Science, Washington, D.C. (2013)
Emotions convey more than sentiment. We found that gendered emotional expressions
modulated sexual orientation judgments from faces, consistent with stereotypes of
gay individuals as gender-atypical. This is the first research on accuracy of
person perceptions at the intersection of stable (sexual orientation) and fleeting
(emotion) person characteristics.