title: What's in a face? The role of skin tone, facial physiognomy, and color presentation mode of facial primes in affective priming effects.
abstract: Participants (N = 106) performed an affective priming task with facial primes that varied in their skin tone and facial physiognomy, and, which were presented either in color or in gray-scale. Participants' racial evaluations were more positive for Eurocentric than for Afrocentric physiognomy faces. Light skin tone faces were evaluated more positively than dark skin tone faces, but the magnitude of this effect depended on the mode of color presentation. The results suggest that in affective priming tasks, faces might not be processed holistically, and instead, visual features of facial priming stimuli independently affect implicit evaluations.
authors.affiliation: Florida Gulf Coast University, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 10501 FGCU Blvd., Fort Myers, FL 33965, USA. estepanova@fgcu.edu
authors.forename: Elena V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Stepanova
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Strube
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000339:Affect; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D001213:Asian / Q000523:psychology*; D001245:Association Learning; D001504:Beauty; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003118:Color Perception; D003463:Cues; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D012880:Skin Pigmentation; D012928:Social Desirability; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult