Cross-cultural evidence for apparent racial outgroup advantage: congruence between perceived facial aggressiveness and fighting success
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/18:10383742
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-27751-0" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-27751-0</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-27751-0" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41598-018-27751-0</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Cross-cultural evidence for apparent racial outgroup advantage: congruence between perceived facial aggressiveness and fighting success
Original language description
Research into face processing consistently shows an outgroup disadvantage in areas such as recognition memory and emotional identification. Potential ingroup advantage with respect to inferences regarding personality and behavioural outcomes, on the other hand, has not yet been studied. In the present study, we used the faces of male professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters of apparent African, European, or mixed-race origin as targets and males from four distant populations that vary in ethnic composition as perceivers. We compared the perceivers’ inferences about targets’ aggressiveness with the fighters’ actual performance in professional MMA championships. Surprisingly, across three distant populations used in the study (Cameroon, Czech Republic, and Turkey), perceivers’ inferences based on face rating were more congruent with real-world performance for targets belonging to an apparent racial outgroup (as opposed to ingroup). In an ethnically mixed population (Brazil), perceivers showed the lowest congruence for apparently mixed-race targets. It thus seems that the outgroup disadvantage observed in other face processing domains does not carry over to inferences about aggressive behavioural outcomes. In fact, it seems that this relationship is, if anything, reversed.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Scientific Reports
ISSN
2045-2322
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
8
Issue of the periodical within the volume
June
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
"Article Number: 9767"
UT code for WoS article
000436397000016
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85049127278