Judging a book by its cover: cultural differences in inference of the inner state based on the outward appearance

• Main Authors: Ji, Li-Jun, Lee, Albert, Zhang, Zhiyong, Li, Ye, Wang, Xin-Qiang, Torok, Debra, Rosenbaum, Sam
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Outward Appearance; Inner State
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171796
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The world can be represented by two layers of information: How it appears on the outside (outward appearance) and what it is on the inside (inner state). To what extent an outward appearance is assumed to reflect the inner state is fundamental to social inference and judgments. Conceptualizing infer...