APS
2022 APS Annual Convention · 2022
The Ratio of Black Faces in the Crowd Is Positively Associated with Perception of Emotion
- Kyle LaFollette
Case Western Reserve University - Erika Weisz
Harvard University - Mina Cikara
Harvard University - Zi Huang
Harvard Business School - Amit Goldenberg
Harvard Business School
Abstract
We show that the proportion of Black faces in the crows is associated with the propensity to evaluate those crowds as emotional. Diffusion decision models revealed people accumulate greater evidence for emotional inferences based on the Black faces in the crowd, irrespective of the intensity and valence of expression.
Decision Making
