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Selective Attention to Signs of Success: Social Dominance and Early Stage Interpersonal Perception

Personality & social psychology bulletin, 2008-04, Vol.34 (4), p.488-501 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC. Apr 2008 ;ISSN: 0146-1672 ;EISSN: 1552-7433 ;DOI: 10.1177/0146167207311910 ;PMID: 18192434

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Title:
Selective Attention to Signs of Success: Social Dominance and Early Stage Interpersonal Perception
Author: Maner, Jon K. ; DeWall, C. Nathan ; Gailliot, Matthew T.
Subjects: Achievement ; Adult ; Attention ; Attractiveness ; Beauty ; Biological Evolution ; Dominance ; Dominance (Psychology) ; Eye tracking ; Female ; Gender ; Gender differences ; Gender Identity ; Humans ; Interpersonal Relations ; Judgment ; Male ; Marriage ; Mating ; Men ; Person perception ; Physical attractiveness ; Preferences ; Selective attention ; Sex differences ; Sex differences (Psychology) ; Social aspects ; Social Dominance ; Social domination ; Social perception ; Social status ; Stereotyping ; Stimulus
Is Part Of: Personality & social psychology bulletin, 2008-04, Vol.34 (4), p.488-501
Description: Results from two experiments suggest that observers selectively attend to male, but not female, targets displaying signs of social dominance. Participants overestimated the frequency of dominant men in rapidly presented stimulus arrays (Study 1) and visually fixated on dominant men in an eyetracking experiment (Study 2). When viewing female targets, participants attended to signs of physical attractiveness rather than social dominance. Findings fit with evolutionary models of mating, which imply that dominance and physical attractiveness sometimes tend to be prioritized preferentially in judgments of men versus women, respectively. Findings suggest that sex differences in human mating are observed not only at the level of overt mating preferences and choices but also at early stages of interpersonal perception. This research demonstrates the utility of examining early-in-the-stream social cognition through the functionalist lens of adaptationist thinking.
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0146-1672
EISSN: 1552-7433
DOI: 10.1177/0146167207311910
PMID: 18192434
Source: MEDLINE
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Selective Attention to Signs of Success: Social Dominance and Early Stage Interpersonal Perception

Copyright SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC. Apr 2008 ;ISSN: 0146-1672 ;EISSN: 1552-7433 ;DOI: 10.1177/0146167207311910 ;PMID: 18192434

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