Fooled by first impressions? Reexamining the diagnostic value of appearance-based inferences

By Christopher Y. Olivola, Alexander Todorov. 2010

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Marketing

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Gaydar and the Fallacy of Decontextualized Measurement (2018, result): “…half of the people flagged by their respective laboratory gaydars would be gay if these gaydars had been applied to the general population, and that is consistent with results from Olivola and Todorov (2010) on the error rates of sexual orientation judgments applied in realistic social settings.”
Political Ideology at Face Value (2010, background): “…our assumption that political attitudes can be detected at zero acquaintance comes from the demonstration that membership in one of two political parties (Democrats and Republicans) in the United States can be discriminated above chance (Jahoda, 1954; Olivola & Todorov, 2010; Rule & Ambady, 2010).”
Intergroup Perception and Cognition: An Integrative Framework for Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Social Categorization (2017, background): “Olivola and Todorov (2010) reported similar results in a large sample (N > 1000) using candidates from the 2002 and 2004 House of Representatives elections.”
The many (distinctive) faces of leadership: Inferring leadership domain from facial appearance (2014, methodology): “…about leaderswithin a particular domain, such as their political orientation (e.g., Carpinella & Johnson, 2013; Jahoda, 1954; Olivola et al., 2012; Olivola & Todorov, 2010b; Wänke et al., 2012), or their ability to determine whether or not someone is a leader (Cherulnik, Turns, & Wilderman,…”
The influence of clothing on first impressions: Rapid and positive responses to minor changes in male attire (2013, background): “It is now well documented that people can form snap judgements, with an above chance level of accuracy, and can do so from a single static picture (Olivola and Todorov, 2010a).”
Social attributions from faces: determinants, consequences, accuracy, and functional significance. (2015, background): “(b) Judgments of political affiliation (study 2 in Olivola & Todorov 2010a), where the base-rates were experimentally manipulated (between participants) and known to participants, so that either Democrats were the dominant category (blue), Republicans were the dominant category (red ), or both…”