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Title: | Evidence for the dynamic human ability to judge another's sex from ambiguous or unfamiliar signals | Contributor(s): | Gaetano, Justin (author) | Publication Date: | 2019-07-09 | Open Access: | Yes | DOI: | 10.11588/jddm.2019.1.61118 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/27339 | Abstract: | Humans make decisions about social information efficiently, despite - or perhaps because of - the sheer scale of data available. Of these various signals, sex cues are vitally important, yet understanding whether participants perceive them as static or dynamic is unknown. The present study addressed the related question of how expertise impinges on sex judgements. Participants were asked to target female and male exemplars from a set of own- or other-race hand images. Data show: (1) that the own-race sex categorisation advantage observed previously using face stimuli can occur in relation to hands, and (2) sensitivity of Asian participants, but not Caucasian participants, is dynamic relative to how many fe/males there are in a set. Implications of these findings are discussed as further evidence that there exists a pan-stimulus sex processor, and as fresh evidence that human sex perception can change probabilistically. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Journal of Dynamic Decision Making, v.5, p. 1-14 | Publisher: | Universitaetsbibliothek Heidelberg | Place of Publication: | Germany | ISSN: | 2365-8037 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 170102 Developmental Psychology and Ageing 170104 Forensic Psychology 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 520502 Gender psychology | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970117 Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280121 Expanding knowledge in psychology | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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