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. 2020 Dec 24;18(4):1474704920980642. doi: 10.1177/1474704920980642

Table 1.

Summary of Research Concerning Dimorphic Facial Cues and Social Judgment.

Authors and Date Manipulations on Face Stimuli Results
Perrett et al. (1998) Increasing the masculinity of a face’s shape
Increasing masculinity led to higher ratings on dominance and lower ratings on emotionality, warmth, cooperativeness, and honesty.
Pivonkova et al. (2011) No manipulations, direct rating Masculine male faces associated with higher dominance and more social boldness.
Wen et al. (2014) Increasing facial masculinity Increasing masculinity led to higher ratings of dominance and aggression.
Walker and Wanke (2017) Presenting masculine and feminine target faces Masculine faces were perceived as colder and more competent than feminine faces.
Oh et al. (2019) Applying data-driven computational models on target faces Masculinity was associated with the impression of competence.