Hands as sex cues: sensitivity measures, male bias measures, and implications for sex perception mechanisms

摘要: Sex perceptions, or more particularly, sex discriminations and categorisations, are high-value social behaviours. They mediate almost all inter-personal interactions. The two experiments reported here had the aim of exploring some basic characteristics processes giving rise to perceptions. Experiment 1 confirmed that human hands can be used as a cue an individual’s even when colour texture cues removed presentations brief. also showed sexually ambiguous observers tend classify them male often than female. 2 “male bias” arises not from sensitivity differences but in response biases. Observers conservative their judgements targets female liberal male. These data, combined with earlier reports, suggest existence sex-perception space is cue-invariant.