Smiling and relative status in news photographs.
To test the hypothesis that lower social status is associated with more smiling, the authors used newspaper photographs and their associated news stories as the basis for scoring the smiling and relative social status of the 2 individuals in each photograph. Independent raters judged smiling and 5 dimensions of relative status for 496 individuals in 248 newspaper photographs. There was no relation between status and smiling, although status and smiling were both related to other variables such as gender, age, and story valence. These findings add to a growing body of evidence that there is no generalized relation between smiling and status.
Hall
Judith A
JA
Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA. HALL1@neu.edu
Carter
Jason D
JD
Jimenez
Maria C
MC
Frost
Natasha A
NA
LeBeau
Lavonia Smith
LS
D000367:Age Factors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009524:Newspapers as Topic; D010781:Photography; D012737:Sex Factors; D012904:Smiling; D012923:Social Class; D012938:Social Perception; D014481:United States