Lynette Ewing
Biographic Data
| ID | 99995 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynette Ewing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynette |
| FAMILY NAME | Ewing |
| SIGNATURE | EWING L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5263-1267 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The effect of interpersonal distance and background context on trait impressions
People rapidly form trait impressions of other individuals that they encounter based on their visual appearance. Such opinions are made with consensus between observers, yet external factors can also influence judgments. Here, we investigated the effects of two potentially important external factors - interpersonal distance and background context - by manipulating these variables while participants evaluated life-sized whole-person stimuli. Parti…
Observer and stimulus factors jointly shape perceptual similarity of static and dynamic facial emotions
Facial emotion perception is influenced by many factors (e.g. context, conceptual knowledge, facial motion), but how these factors jointly shape emotion perception remains unclear. The present study investigated how observer- and stimulus-based information interact to influence the perceived similarity of facial emotions. Participants categorised the emotion (Experiment 1) or assessed the intensity (Experiment 2) of two static or dynamic facial e…
Close encounters: Interpersonal proximity amplifies social appraisals
Social appraisals reflect the rapid integration of available perceptual information with broader contextual factors (e.g., intentions). While interpersonal distance affects both information availability and social context, how it changes trait impressions remains unknown. Over four experiments, we used a novel paradigm to address this question. In Experiment 1, we assessed participants' attributions of attractiveness, competence, dominance and tr…
Children perceive illusory faces in objects as male more often than female
Orientation effects support specialist processing of upright unfamiliar faces in children and adults
It is considerably harder to generalize identity across different pictures of unfamiliar faces, compared with familiar faces. This finding hints strongly at qualitatively distinct processing of unfamiliar face stimuli-for which we have less expertise. Yet, the extent to which face selective versus generic visual processes drive outcomes during this task has yet to be determined. To explore the relative contributions of each, we contrasted perform…
Sex‐specific variation in facial masculinity/femininity associated with autistic traits in the general population
Reports linking prenatal testosterone exposure to autistic traits and to a masculinized face structure have motivated research investigating whether autism is associated with facial masculinization. This association has been reported with greater consistency for females than for males, in studies comparing groups with high and low levels of autistic traits. In the present study, we conducted two experiments to examine facial masculinity/femininit…
Children show adult-like facial appearance biases when trusting others
A large research literature details the powerful behavioral consequences that a trustworthy appearance can have on adult behavior. Surprisingly, few studies have investigated how these biases operate among children, despite the theoretical importance of understanding when these biases emerge in development. Here, we used an economic trust game to systematically investigate trust behavior in young children (5-8 years), older children (9-12 years),…
Should I trust you? Autistic traits predict reduced appearance-based trust decisions
Facial impressions of trustworthiness guide social decisions in the general population, as shown by financial lending in economic Trust Games. As an exception, autistic boys fail to use facial impressions to guide trust decisions, despite forming typical facial trustworthiness impressions (Autism, 19, 2015a, 1002). Here, we tested whether this dissociation between forming and using facial impressions of trustworthiness extends to neurotypical men…
Facial expression coding in children and adolescents with autism: Reduced adaptability but intact norm‐based coding
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder ( ASD ) can have difficulty recognizing emotional expressions. Here, we asked whether the underlying perceptual coding of expression is disrupted. Typical individuals code expression relative to a perceptual (average) norm that is continuously updated by experience. This adaptability of face‐coding mechanisms has been linked to performance on various face tasks. We used an adaptation aftereffect paradigm …
Judging trustworthiness from faces: Emotion cues modulate trustworthiness judgments in young children
By adulthood, people judge trustworthiness from appearances rapidly and reliably. However, we know little about these judgments in children. This novel study investigates the developmental trajectory of explicit trust judgments from faces, and the contribution made by emotion cues across age groups. Five-, 7-, 10-year-olds, and adults rated the trustworthiness of trustworthy and untrustworthy faces with neutral expressions. The same participants …
The Novice Researcher: Interviewing Young Children
Being a novice researcher undertaking research interviews with young children requires understandings of the interview process. By investigating the interaction between a novice researcher undertaking her first interview and a child participant, the authors attend to theoretical principles, such as the competence of young children as informants, and highlight practical matters when interviewing young children. A conversation analysis approach exa…
Contact and other-race effects in configural and component processing of faces
Other-race faces are generally recognized more poorly than own-race faces. There has been a long-standing interest in the extent to which differences in contact contribute to this other-race effect (ORE). Here, we examined the effect of contact on two distinct aspects of face memory, memory for configuration and for components, both of which are better for own-race than other-race faces. Configural and component memory were measured using recogni…
The Novice Researcher: Interviewing Young Children
Being a novice researcher undertaking research interviews with young children requires understandings of the interview process. By investigating the interaction between a novice researcher undertaking her first interview and a child participant, the authors attend to theoretical principles, such as the competence of young children as informants, and highlight practical matters when interviewing young children. A conversation analysis approach exa…
Contact and other-race effects in configural and component processing of faces
Other-race faces are generally recognized more poorly than own-race faces. There has been a long-standing interest in the extent to which differences in contact contribute to this other-race effect (ORE). Here, we examined the effect of contact on two distinct aspects of face memory, memory for configuration and for components, both of which are better for own-race than other-race faces. Configural and component memory were measured using recogni…
Children show adult-like facial appearance biases when trusting others
A large research literature details the powerful behavioral consequences that a trustworthy appearance can have on adult behavior. Surprisingly, few studies have investigated how these biases operate among children, despite the theoretical importance of understanding when these biases emerge in development. Here, we used an economic trust game to systematically investigate trust behavior in young children (5-8 years), older children (9-12 years),…
Should I trust you? Autistic traits predict reduced appearance-based trust decisions
Facial impressions of trustworthiness guide social decisions in the general population, as shown by financial lending in economic Trust Games. As an exception, autistic boys fail to use facial impressions to guide trust decisions, despite forming typical facial trustworthiness impressions (Autism, 19, 2015a, 1002). Here, we tested whether this dissociation between forming and using facial impressions of trustworthiness extends to neurotypical men…
Judging trustworthiness from faces: Emotion cues modulate trustworthiness judgments in young children
By adulthood, people judge trustworthiness from appearances rapidly and reliably. However, we know little about these judgments in children. This novel study investigates the developmental trajectory of explicit trust judgments from faces, and the contribution made by emotion cues across age groups. Five-, 7-, 10-year-olds, and adults rated the trustworthiness of trustworthy and untrustworthy faces with neutral expressions. The same participants …
Contact and other-race effects in configural and component processing of faces
Other-race faces are generally recognized more poorly than own-race faces. There has been a long-standing interest in the extent to which differences in contact contribute to this other-race effect (ORE). Here, we examined the effect of contact on two distinct aspects of face memory, memory for configuration and for components, both of which are better for own-race than other-race faces. Configural and component memory were measured using recogni…
The Novice Researcher: Interviewing Young Children
Being a novice researcher undertaking research interviews with young children requires understandings of the interview process. By investigating the interaction between a novice researcher undertaking her first interview and a child participant, the authors attend to theoretical principles, such as the competence of young children as informants, and highlight practical matters when interviewing young children. A conversation analysis approach exa…
Judging trustworthiness from faces: Emotion cues modulate trustworthiness judgments in young children
By adulthood, people judge trustworthiness from appearances rapidly and reliably. However, we know little about these judgments in children. This novel study investigates the developmental trajectory of explicit trust judgments from faces, and the contribution made by emotion cues across age groups. Five-, 7-, 10-year-olds, and adults rated the trustworthiness of trustworthy and untrustworthy faces with neutral expressions. The same participants …
Facial expression coding in children and adolescents with autism: Reduced adaptability but intact norm‐based coding
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder ( ASD ) can have difficulty recognizing emotional expressions. Here, we asked whether the underlying perceptual coding of expression is disrupted. Typical individuals code expression relative to a perceptual (average) norm that is continuously updated by experience. This adaptability of face‐coding mechanisms has been linked to performance on various face tasks. We used an adaptation aftereffect paradigm …
Children show adult-like facial appearance biases when trusting others
A large research literature details the powerful behavioral consequences that a trustworthy appearance can have on adult behavior. Surprisingly, few studies have investigated how these biases operate among children, despite the theoretical importance of understanding when these biases emerge in development. Here, we used an economic trust game to systematically investigate trust behavior in young children (5-8 years), older children (9-12 years),…
Should I trust you? Autistic traits predict reduced appearance-based trust decisions
Facial impressions of trustworthiness guide social decisions in the general population, as shown by financial lending in economic Trust Games. As an exception, autistic boys fail to use facial impressions to guide trust decisions, despite forming typical facial trustworthiness impressions (Autism, 19, 2015a, 1002). Here, we tested whether this dissociation between forming and using facial impressions of trustworthiness extends to neurotypical men…
Sex‐specific variation in facial masculinity/femininity associated with autistic traits in the general population
Reports linking prenatal testosterone exposure to autistic traits and to a masculinized face structure have motivated research investigating whether autism is associated with facial masculinization. This association has been reported with greater consistency for females than for males, in studies comparing groups with high and low levels of autistic traits. In the present study, we conducted two experiments to examine facial masculinity/femininit…
Children perceive illusory faces in objects as male more often than female
Orientation effects support specialist processing of upright unfamiliar faces in children and adults
It is considerably harder to generalize identity across different pictures of unfamiliar faces, compared with familiar faces. This finding hints strongly at qualitatively distinct processing of unfamiliar face stimuli-for which we have less expertise. Yet, the extent to which face selective versus generic visual processes drive outcomes during this task has yet to be determined. To explore the relative contributions of each, we contrasted perform…
Observer and stimulus factors jointly shape perceptual similarity of static and dynamic facial emotions
Facial emotion perception is influenced by many factors (e.g. context, conceptual knowledge, facial motion), but how these factors jointly shape emotion perception remains unclear. The present study investigated how observer- and stimulus-based information interact to influence the perceived similarity of facial emotions. Participants categorised the emotion (Experiment 1) or assessed the intensity (Experiment 2) of two static or dynamic facial e…
Close encounters: Interpersonal proximity amplifies social appraisals
Social appraisals reflect the rapid integration of available perceptual information with broader contextual factors (e.g., intentions). While interpersonal distance affects both information availability and social context, how it changes trait impressions remains unknown. Over four experiments, we used a novel paradigm to address this question. In Experiment 1, we assessed participants' attributions of attractiveness, competence, dominance and tr…
The effect of interpersonal distance and background context on trait impressions
People rapidly form trait impressions of other individuals that they encounter based on their visual appearance. Such opinions are made with consensus between observers, yet external factors can also influence judgments. Here, we investigated the effects of two potentially important external factors - interpersonal distance and background context - by manipulating these variables while participants evaluated life-sized whole-person stimuli. Parti…
Psychology (10 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (9 works) · Cognitive psychology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Face Recognition and Perception (7 works) · Perception (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Communication (4 works) · Face perception (4 works) · Facial expression (4 works)