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

Sex perceptions, or more particularly, sex discriminations and sex categorisations, are high-value social behaviours. They mediate almost all inter-personal interactions. The two experiments reported here had the aim of exploring some of the basic characteristics of the processes giving rise to sex...

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Autores principales:	Justin Gaetano, Rick van der Zwan, Duncan Blair, Anna Brooks
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:34e8c7b376ee4c5683eb4b4c6e5b0a162021-11-18T08:29:26ZHands as sex cues: sensitivity measures, male bias measures, and implications for sex perception mechanisms.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0091032https://doaj.org/article/34e8c7b376ee4c5683eb4b4c6e5b0a162014-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24603615/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Sex perceptions, or more particularly, sex discriminations and sex categorisations, are high-value social behaviours. They mediate almost all inter-personal interactions. The two experiments reported here had the aim of exploring some of the basic characteristics of the processes giving rise to sex perceptions. Experiment 1 confirmed that human hands can be used as a cue to an individual's sex even when colour and texture cues are removed and presentations are brief. Experiment 1 also showed that when hands are sexually ambiguous observers tend to classify them as male more often than female. Experiment 2 showed that "male bias" arises not from sensitivity differences but from differences in response biases. Observers are conservative in their judgements of targets as female but liberal in their judgements of targets as male. These data, combined with earlier reports, suggest the existence of a sex-perception space that is cue-invariant.Justin GaetanoRick van der ZwanDuncan BlairAnna BrooksPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 3, p e91032 (2014)
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description	Sex perceptions, or more particularly, sex discriminations and sex categorisations, are high-value social behaviours. They mediate almost all inter-personal interactions. The two experiments reported here had the aim of exploring some of the basic characteristics of the processes giving rise to sex perceptions. Experiment 1 confirmed that human hands can be used as a cue to an individual's sex even when colour and texture cues are removed and presentations are brief. Experiment 1 also showed that when hands are sexually ambiguous observers tend to classify them as male more often than female. Experiment 2 showed that "male bias" arises not from sensitivity differences but from differences in response biases. Observers are conservative in their judgements of targets as female but liberal in their judgements of targets as male. These data, combined with earlier reports, suggest the existence of a sex-perception space that is cue-invariant.
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title	Hands as sex cues: sensitivity measures, male bias measures, and implications for sex perception mechanisms.
title_short	Hands as sex cues: sensitivity measures, male bias measures, and implications for sex perception mechanisms.
title_full	Hands as sex cues: sensitivity measures, male bias measures, and implications for sex perception mechanisms.
title_fullStr	Hands as sex cues: sensitivity measures, male bias measures, and implications for sex perception mechanisms.
title_full_unstemmed	Hands as sex cues: sensitivity measures, male bias measures, and implications for sex perception mechanisms.
title_sort	hands as sex cues: sensitivity measures, male bias measures, and implications for sex perception mechanisms.
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Hands as sex cues: sensitivity measures, male bias measures, and implications for sex perception mechanisms.

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