What’s in a face? The role of facial features in ratings of dominance, threat, and stereotypicality

Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

Table 3 Parameter estimates for level 2 (raters) of the two-level model

Relation/variable	Estimate	pSD	p	Lower	Upper	Std
RATERS regressions
Dominance
White	− 0.12	0.16	0.24	− 0.44	0.25	− 0.05
Asian	0.00	0.15	0.49	− 0.29	0.32	0.00
Hispanic/Latinx	0.02	0.16	0.45	− 0.31	0.37	0.01
Biracial	− 0.26	0.20	0.08	− 0.71	0.14	− 0.07
Other race	0.19	0.47	0.36	− 0.79	1.24	0.02
Non-female	− 0.34	0.13	< .01	− 0.58	− 0.08	− 0.14
> 21 years old	0.22	0.17	0.12	− 0.14	0.55	0.07
Black stereotypicality
White	− 0.62	0.13	< .01	− 0.89	− 0.38	− 0.31
Asian	− 0.40	0.12	< .01	− 0.65	− 0.16	− 0.21
Hispanic/Latinx	− 0.45	0.14	< .01	− 0.72	− 0.16	− 0.20
Biracial	− 0.29	0.17	0.03	− 0.64	0.02	− 0.10
Other race	− 0.34	0.35	0.18	− 0.98	0.38	− 0.05
Non-female	− 0.02	0.10	0.39	− 0.22	0.18	− 0.01
> 21 years old	0.21	0.13	0.05	− 0.04	0.47	0.09
Threat
White	0.13	0.14	0.18	− 0.15	0.39	0.06
Asian	0.34	0.13	0.01	0.06	0.58	0.16
Hispanic/Latinx	0.11	0.16	0.22	− 0.18	0.43	0.04
Biracial	− 0.16	0.18	0.17	− 0.56	0.15	− 0.05
Other race	0.38	0.38	0.14	− 0.34	1.14	0.05
Non-female	− 0.03	0.11	0.40	− 0.24	0.21	− 0.02
> 21 years old	0.13	0.17	0.19	− 0.19	0.46	0.05
RATERS residual variance
Dominance	0.93	0.08	< .01	0.79	1.11	0.95
Black stereotypicality	0.54	0.05	< .01	0.44	0.64	0.88
Threat	0.72	0.06	< .01	0.61	0.84	0.95
RATERS covariance
Dominance with
Black stereotypicality	0.23	0.05	< .01	0.15	0.36	0.34
Threat	0.44	0.06	< .01	0.33	0.56	0.55
Black stereotypicality with
Threat	0.21	0.04	< .01	0.14	0.29	0.34
Intercepts
Dominance	3.54	0.10	< .01	3.34	3.75	3.59
Black stereotypicality	3.17	0.10	< .01	2.98	3.39	4.06
Threat	2.41	0.09	< .01	2.24	2.59	2.77

pSD = posterior standard deviation. p = p value. Lower, upper = bounds of 95% credible interval. Std = fully standardized value. Model fit DIC = 95,821 (90 free parameters). For reference, the cross-classified DIC = 95,810 (96 free parameters)