Humans use facial cues to convey social dominance and submission. Despite the evolutionary importance of this social ability, how the brain recognizes social dominance from the face is unknown. We used event-related brain potentials (ERP) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine the neural mechanisms underlying social dominance perception from facial cues. Participants made gender judgments while viewing aggression-related facial expressions as well as facial postures conveying dominance or submission. ERP evidence indicates that the perception of dominance from aggression-related emotional expressions occurs early in neural processing while the perception of social dominance from facial postures arises later. Brain imaging results show that activity in the fusiform gyrus, superior temporal gyrus and lingual gyrus, is associated with the perception of social dominance from facial postures and the magnitude of neural response in these regions differentiates between perceived dominance and perceived submissiveness.
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Globalization and the Transformations of Race -- PART I DIASPORIC MOVEMENTS, MISSIONS, AND MODERNITIES -- Missionary Positions -- History at the Crossroads: Vodú and the Modernization of the Dominican Borderlands -- Diaspora and Desire: Gendering ''Black America'' in Black Liverpool -- Diaspora Space, Ethnographic Space: Writing History Between the Lines -- ''Mama, I'm Walking to Canada'': Black Geopolitics and Invisible Empires -- PART II GEOGRAPHIES OF RACIAL BELONGING -- Mapping Transnationality: Roots Tourism and the Institutionalization of Ethnic Heritage -- Emigration and the Spatial Production of Difference from Cape Verde -- Folkloric ''Others'': Blanqueamiento and the Celebration of Blackness as an Exception in Puerto Rico -- Gentrification, Globalization, and Georaciality -- Recasting ''Black Venus'' in the ''New'' African Diaspora -- ''Shooting the White Girl First'': Race in Post-apartheid South Africa -- PART III POPULAR BLACKNESSES, ''AUTHENTICITY,'' AND NEW MEASURES OF LEGITIMACY -- Havana's Timba: A Macho Sound for Black Sex -- Reading Bu√y and ''Looking Proper'': Race, Gender, and Consumption among West Indian Girls in Brooklyn -- The Homegrown: Rap, Race, and Class in London -- Racialization, Gender, and the Negotiation of Power in Stockholm's African Dance Courses -- Modern Blackness: Progress, ''America,'' and the Politics of Popular Culture in Jamaica -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
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This book focuses on the hyper-scripturalization (or the persistent degradation) of Black flesh, with the phenomenon of masquerade conceptualized as analytical wedge that makes a compelling case for seeing how our ongoing modern realities, with mixed and too often devastating consequences, are constructed.
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Although replication is a central tenet of science, direct replications are rare in psychology. This research tested variation in the replicability of 13 classic and contemporary effects across 36 independent samples totaling 6,344 participants. In the aggregate, 10 effects replicated consistently. One effect – imagined contact reducing prejudice – showed weak support for replicability. And two effects – flag priming influencing conservatism and currency priming influencing system justification – did not replicate. We compared whether the conditions such as lab versus online or US versus international sample predicted effect magnitudes. By and large they did not. The results of this small sample of effects suggest that replicability is more dependent on the effect itself than on the sample and setting used to investigate the effect.
While direct replications such as the "Many Labs" project are extremely valuable in testing the reliability of published findings across laboratories, they reflect the common reliance in psychology on single vignettes or stimuli, which limits the scope of the conclusions that can be reached. New experimental tools and statistical techniques make it easier to routinely sample stimuli, and to appropriately treat them as random factors. We encourage researchers to get into the habit of including multiple versions of the content (e.g., stimuli or vignettes) in their designs, to increase confidence in cross-stimulus generalization and to yield more realistic estimates of effect size. We call on editors to be aware of the challenges inherent in such stimulus sampling, to expect and tolerate unexplained variability in observed effect size between stimuli, and to encourage stimulus sampling instead of the deceptively cleaner picture offered by the current reliance on single stimuli.
Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie program and the European Research Council and EPLANET (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; the HOMING PLUS program of the Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced from European Union, Regional Development Fund, the Mobility Plus program of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the National Science Center (Poland), contracts Harmonia 2014/14/M/ST2/00428, Opus 2013/11/B/ST2/04202, 2014/13/B/ST2/02543 and 2014/15/B/ST2/03998, Sonata-bis 2012/07/E/ST2/01406; the Thalis and Aristeia programs cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; the National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund; the Programa Clarín-COFUND del Principado de Asturias; the Rachadapisek Sompot Fund for Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chulalongkorn University and the Chulalongkorn Academic into Its 2nd Century Project Advancement Project (Thailand); and the Welch Foundation, contract C-1845.