Accuracy, Bias, and Overgeneralization: Perceived Aggression Guides Threat Detection and Punishment of Female Criminal Offenders.
Despite centuries of scientific (and sometimes pseudoscientific) interest in identifying criminals, research has not examined the perception and punishment of female criminals. Building on research describing how men's facial appearance relates to juridic outcomes, we therefore investigated criminal...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Nonverbal Behavior Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 227 - 249 |
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