Leslie Z Mcarthur
Biographic Data
| ID | 3884792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie Z Mcarthur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie Z |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcarthur |
| SIGNATURE | MCARTHUR L Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Perceiving character in faces
Some components and consequences of a babyface
Physical measurements and subjective ratings of various facial features were obtained for 20 adult male stimulus faces. The faces were also rated on five personality dimensions, physical attractiveness, age, and babyfacedness. The physical measurements of large, round eyes, high eyebrows, and a small chin each yielded the perception of a babyish facial appearance, and a weighted linear composite derived from the measures of eye size and chin widt…
Toward an ecological theory of social perception.
The ecological approach to perception (J. Gibson, 1979; Shaw, Turvey, & Mace, 1982) is applied to the social domain. The general advantages of this approach are enumerated, its applicability to social perception is documented, and its specific implications for research on emotion perception, impression formation, and causal attribution are discussed. The implications of the ecological approach for our understanding of errors in social perception …
Impact of salient vocal qualities on causal attribution for a speaker's behavior
Considerable research has demonstrated an illusory causation effect in which visually salient people are perceived as more causal of events in a social inter-action than their nonsalient counterparts. The present studies extended this work to the realm of auditory salience. Two determinants of auditory salience were manipulated—the intensity of a speaker's voice and the sex of a speaker's voice. As predicted, subjects attended more to a 75-dB (A)…
Weight differences in emotional responsiveness to proprioceptive and pictorial stimuli
Two studies were conducted to investigate weight differences in emotional responsiveness to proprioceptive and pictorial stimuli. Contrary to past evidence that overweight persons are more emotional than normals, the emotional state of normal-weight subjects fluctuated with manipulations of their facial expression, whereas that of overweight subjects did not respond to these proprioceptive cues. Furthermore, whereas past research employing affect…
Illusory correlation in impression formation
Illusory correlation research has identified two factors that lead subjects to overestimate the relationship between particular categories of people and particular types of behavior: associative connections and shared infrequency. Three studies examined the nature of illusory correlation effects when both of these factors operated simultaneously. The results were consistent with previous shared infrequency effects only when infrequency and associ…
Developmental differences in the use of distinctiveness, consensus, and consistency information for making causal attributions
The present study examined developmental differences in the use of distinctive-ness, consensus, and consistency information for making causal attributions. First, third and sixth graders and college students were presented with brief story pairs consisting of an act manifested by an agent toward a target person. Each story in a pair was accompanied by a different level of a particular type of information (e.g., high consensus for one and low cons…
Perceptions of an aggressive encounter as a function of the victim's salience and the perceiver's arousal
Two studies were conducted to investigate the effects of a victim's physical salience and perceivers' arousal on perceptions of a verbally aggressive interaction. Based upon evidence that there is a tendency to attribute causality to salient stimulus persons and to form more evaluatively extreme impressions of such persons, it was predicted that an aggressor's behavior would be attributed more to causes in a physically salient than a nonsalient v…
The lesser influence of consensus than distinctiveness information on causal attributions
Achievements of male and female storybook characters as determinants of achievement behavior by boys and girls
The effects of achievement behavior by male and female storybook models on children's own achievement behavior was assessed. Preschoolers heard either a stereotype story depicting achievement behavior by a male, but not by a female, a reversal story depicting achievement behavior by a female, but not by a male, or a control story depicting no achievement behavior by any character. As predicted, a significant Sex X Storybook interaction effect was…
Some components and consequences of a babyface
Physical measurements and subjective ratings of various facial features were obtained for 20 adult male stimulus faces. The faces were also rated on five personality dimensions, physical attractiveness, age, and babyfacedness. The physical measurements of large, round eyes, high eyebrows, and a small chin each yielded the perception of a babyish facial appearance, and a weighted linear composite derived from the measures of eye size and chin widt…
Perceiving character in faces
Developmental differences in the use of distinctiveness, consensus, and consistency information for making causal attributions
The present study examined developmental differences in the use of distinctive-ness, consensus, and consistency information for making causal attributions. First, third and sixth graders and college students were presented with brief story pairs consisting of an act manifested by an agent toward a target person. Each story in a pair was accompanied by a different level of a particular type of information (e.g., high consensus for one and low cons…
The lesser influence of consensus than distinctiveness information on causal attributions
Impact of salient vocal qualities on causal attribution for a speaker's behavior
Considerable research has demonstrated an illusory causation effect in which visually salient people are perceived as more causal of events in a social inter-action than their nonsalient counterparts. The present studies extended this work to the realm of auditory salience. Two determinants of auditory salience were manipulated—the intensity of a speaker's voice and the sex of a speaker's voice. As predicted, subjects attended more to a 75-dB (A)…
Achievements of male and female storybook characters as determinants of achievement behavior by boys and girls
The effects of achievement behavior by male and female storybook models on children's own achievement behavior was assessed. Preschoolers heard either a stereotype story depicting achievement behavior by a male, but not by a female, a reversal story depicting achievement behavior by a female, but not by a male, or a control story depicting no achievement behavior by any character. As predicted, a significant Sex X Storybook interaction effect was…
Perceptions of an aggressive encounter as a function of the victim's salience and the perceiver's arousal
Two studies were conducted to investigate the effects of a victim's physical salience and perceivers' arousal on perceptions of a verbally aggressive interaction. Based upon evidence that there is a tendency to attribute causality to salient stimulus persons and to form more evaluatively extreme impressions of such persons, it was predicted that an aggressor's behavior would be attributed more to causes in a physically salient than a nonsalient v…
Illusory correlation in impression formation
Illusory correlation research has identified two factors that lead subjects to overestimate the relationship between particular categories of people and particular types of behavior: associative connections and shared infrequency. Three studies examined the nature of illusory correlation effects when both of these factors operated simultaneously. The results were consistent with previous shared infrequency effects only when infrequency and associ…
Weight differences in emotional responsiveness to proprioceptive and pictorial stimuli
Two studies were conducted to investigate weight differences in emotional responsiveness to proprioceptive and pictorial stimuli. Contrary to past evidence that overweight persons are more emotional than normals, the emotional state of normal-weight subjects fluctuated with manipulations of their facial expression, whereas that of overweight subjects did not respond to these proprioceptive cues. Furthermore, whereas past research employing affect…
The lesser influence of consensus than distinctiveness information on causal attributions
Achievements of male and female storybook characters as determinants of achievement behavior by boys and girls
The effects of achievement behavior by male and female storybook models on children's own achievement behavior was assessed. Preschoolers heard either a stereotype story depicting achievement behavior by a male, but not by a female, a reversal story depicting achievement behavior by a female, but not by a male, or a control story depicting no achievement behavior by any character. As predicted, a significant Sex X Storybook interaction effect was…
Developmental differences in the use of distinctiveness, consensus, and consistency information for making causal attributions
The present study examined developmental differences in the use of distinctive-ness, consensus, and consistency information for making causal attributions. First, third and sixth graders and college students were presented with brief story pairs consisting of an act manifested by an agent toward a target person. Each story in a pair was accompanied by a different level of a particular type of information (e.g., high consensus for one and low cons…
Perceptions of an aggressive encounter as a function of the victim's salience and the perceiver's arousal
Two studies were conducted to investigate the effects of a victim's physical salience and perceivers' arousal on perceptions of a verbally aggressive interaction. Based upon evidence that there is a tendency to attribute causality to salient stimulus persons and to form more evaluatively extreme impressions of such persons, it was predicted that an aggressor's behavior would be attributed more to causes in a physically salient than a nonsalient v…
Weight differences in emotional responsiveness to proprioceptive and pictorial stimuli
Two studies were conducted to investigate weight differences in emotional responsiveness to proprioceptive and pictorial stimuli. Contrary to past evidence that overweight persons are more emotional than normals, the emotional state of normal-weight subjects fluctuated with manipulations of their facial expression, whereas that of overweight subjects did not respond to these proprioceptive cues. Furthermore, whereas past research employing affect…
Illusory correlation in impression formation
Illusory correlation research has identified two factors that lead subjects to overestimate the relationship between particular categories of people and particular types of behavior: associative connections and shared infrequency. Three studies examined the nature of illusory correlation effects when both of these factors operated simultaneously. The results were consistent with previous shared infrequency effects only when infrequency and associ…
Impact of salient vocal qualities on causal attribution for a speaker's behavior
Considerable research has demonstrated an illusory causation effect in which visually salient people are perceived as more causal of events in a social inter-action than their nonsalient counterparts. The present studies extended this work to the realm of auditory salience. Two determinants of auditory salience were manipulated—the intensity of a speaker's voice and the sex of a speaker's voice. As predicted, subjects attended more to a 75-dB (A)…
Toward an ecological theory of social perception.
The ecological approach to perception (J. Gibson, 1979; Shaw, Turvey, & Mace, 1982) is applied to the social domain. The general advantages of this approach are enumerated, its applicability to social perception is documented, and its specific implications for research on emotion perception, impression formation, and causal attribution are discussed. The implications of the ecological approach for our understanding of errors in social perception …
Some components and consequences of a babyface
Physical measurements and subjective ratings of various facial features were obtained for 20 adult male stimulus faces. The faces were also rated on five personality dimensions, physical attractiveness, age, and babyfacedness. The physical measurements of large, round eyes, high eyebrows, and a small chin each yielded the perception of a babyish facial appearance, and a weighted linear composite derived from the measures of eye size and chin widt…
Perceiving character in faces
Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (5 works) · Attribution (4 works) · Perception (4 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (3 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (3 works)