A Review on the Invisible Contributors to Facial Impression
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Facial impression, stereotype, impact of perceivers.Abstract
The formation of facial impression is one of the focused subjects. Prio studies have found that there are invisible factors contributing to it, but there lacks a comprehensive review. Thus, the present review paper embodies and aims to explain a series of important invisible factors. Firstly, the influence of emotional resemblance of facial features and the effect of gender stereotype are tested and explained. Effects of other factors that relate facial feature and emotion to gen-der stereotype are also presented. Secondly, the impacts of perceiver’s characteristics and the context is explained. The findings were that facial features resembling emotions show correlation with gender stereotype, altering impression on faces with the same resemblance of ex-pression; contexts of different types have different impact on impression. Perceivers’ characteristics were also shown to uniquely influence impression. These results implicate the complexity in impression formation and the need of more attention in those implicit aspects.
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