Accuracy of the interpersonal perception by human face in a communicative situation

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Abstract

We studied the adequacy of the assessment of personal characteristics in the perception of people of different races (Caucasoid and Mongoloid) in situations of individual and joint decision making. The study involved two samples of subjects, residents of Moscow and Kyzyl (Republic of Tyva). The adequacy of assessing the personal characteristics of the sitters was analyzed using the values received from the scales of the “Personal Differential” questionnaire. The grouping variables were the region of residence of study participants and the morphological type of the face of the sitter. It is shown that the adequacy of assessing personality based on face perception is selective, and the possibility of discussing one’s own impressions with a partner can be both a resource and a hindrance to the adequacy of judgments about a personality based on a facial image.

General Information

Keywords: interracial perception, perception of a person, adequacy of personality assessment, effect of another race, communicative situation, joint assessment

Journal rubric: Psychology of Perception

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/exppsy.2019120201

Funding. This work was supported by the RFBR grant “Patterns of the organization of interpersonal perception in situations of communicative interaction”, project No. 17-36-01140a2.

For citation: Ananyeva K.I., Tovuu N.O. Accuracy of the interpersonal perception by human face in a communicative situation. Eksperimental'naâ psihologiâ = Experimental Psychology (Russia), 2019. Vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 8–15. DOI: 10.17759/exppsy.2019120201. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Kristina I. Ananyeva, PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor, Research Fellow, Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor, Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis (Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis), Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1666-3269, e-mail: ananyevaki@ipran.ru

Natalia O. Tovuu, Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Chief Researcher of the Laboratory of Regional Economics, Tuvinian Institute for Exploration of Natural Resources of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Kyzyl, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1085-6120, e-mail: tovuu@mail.ru

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