The look that binds: Partner-directed altruistic motivation and biased perception in married couples

Petrican, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1363-5553, Todorov, A., Burris, C.T., Rosenbaum, R.S. and Grady, C. 2015. The look that binds: Partner-directed altruistic motivation and biased perception in married couples. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior 39 (2) , pp. 165-179. 10.1007/s10919-014-0203-3

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Abstract

A trustworthy appearance is regarded as a marker of a globally positive personality and, thus, evokes a host of benevolent responses from perceivers. Nevertheless, it is yet to be determined whether the reverse is also true, that is, whether social targets who evoke unambiguously benign motivations in perceivers are regarded as possessing a more trustworthy appearance (cf. Oosterhof and Todorov in Emotion 9:128–133, 2008). To this end, elderly long-term married couples completed measures of partner-directed altruistic motivation, accommodative behaviors, marital satisfaction, and trust in the partner. They also completed a face-processing task involving spousal and stranger faces 1 year later. Higher motivation to prioritize a spouse’s well-being (but none of the other relationship functioning variables assessed) predicted perceiving one’s spouse’s emotionally neutral face as being more trustworthy-looking. Results are discussed in the context of the reciprocal relationship between higher-order motivational processes and basic perceptual mechanisms in shaping relational climates.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Publisher:	Springer Verlag (Germany)
ISSN:	0191-5886
Last Modified:	04 Jan 2023 02:37
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/128644

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