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Be Careful Where You Smile: Culture Shapes Judgments of Intelligence and Honesty of Smiling Individuals

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, December 2015
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22 news outlets
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86 X users
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5 Facebook pages
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1 Wikipedia page
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Title
Be Careful Where You Smile: Culture Shapes Judgments of Intelligence and Honesty of Smiling Individuals
Published in
Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, December 2015
DOI 10.1007/s10919-015-0226-4
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Authors

Kuba Krys, C. -Melanie Vauclair, Colin A. Capaldi, Vivian Miu-Chi Lun, Michael Harris Bond, Alejandra Domínguez-Espinosa, Claudio Torres, Ottmar V. Lipp, L. Sam S. Manickam, Cai Xing, Radka Antalíková, Vassilis Pavlopoulos, Julien Teyssier, Taekyun Hur, Karolina Hansen, Piotr Szarota, Ramadan A. Ahmed, Eleonora Burtceva, Ana Chkhaidze, Enila Cenko, Patrick Denoux, Márta Fülöp, Arif Hassan, David O. Igbokwe, İdil Işık, Gwatirera Javangwe, María Malbran, Fridanna Maricchiolo, Hera Mikarsa, Lynden K. Miles, Martin Nader, Joonha Park, Muhammad Rizwan, Radwa Salem, Beate Schwarz, Irfana Shah, Chien-Ru Sun, Wijnand van Tilburg, Wolfgang Wagner, Ryan Wise, Angela Arriola Yu

Abstract

Smiling individuals are usually perceived more favorably than non-smiling ones-they are judged as happier, more attractive, competent, and friendly. These seemingly clear and obvious consequences of smiling are assumed to be culturally universal, however most of the psychological research is carried out in WEIRD societies (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) and the influence of culture on social perception of nonverbal behavior is still understudied. Here we show that a smiling individual may be judged as less intelligent than the same non-smiling individual in cultures low on the GLOBE's uncertainty avoidance dimension. Furthermore, we show that corruption at the societal level may undermine the prosocial perception of smiling-in societies with high corruption indicators, trust toward smiling individuals is reduced. This research fosters understanding of the cultural framework surrounding nonverbal communication processes and reveals that in some cultures smiling may lead to negative attributions.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Portugal 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Unknown 189 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 30 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 13%
Student > Bachelor 22 11%
Researcher 14 7%
Other 12 6%
Other 42 22%
Unknown 49 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 68 35%
Social Sciences 15 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 11 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 4%
Other 27 14%
Unknown 56 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 265. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 February 2024.
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#137,790
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Outputs from Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
#5
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#2,168
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
#2
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