Spatial cues influence the visual perception of gender.

摘要: Spatial localization is a basic process in vision, occurring reliably when people encounter an object or person. Yet the role of spatial-location visual perception poorly understood. We explored extent to which distorts gender. Consistent with evidence that objects constrained by their location scenes, enhancing for typical (e.g., Biederman et al., 1982), we hypothesized would see relatively greater femininity faces appeared lower space. On each many trials, participants briefly viewed pair varied gender-ambiguity. One face higher than other, and identified 1 looked more like woman's (Study 1) indicated whether 2 were same 2). Across experiments, perceived seen (vs. higher) These effects seem be perceptual-changes spatial sufficient altering identical different. Thus, modulates percepts gender, providing biased foundation downstream processes involved gender biases, sexual attraction, sex-roles. (PsycINFO Database Record