The Effect of Presentation and First Impressions in the Webcam on Social Status Judgments

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10.2991/assehr.k.220504.193How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Trustworthiness; First impression formation; Online; Decontextualised

Abstract

Nowadays, more human interactions occur online. It remains questionable how people make impression judgments of others from their camera presentation. This study aimed to investigate how camera presentation differences during a brief online meeting affect subsequent social status judgments. We manipulated two levels of camera presentation: ‘smart’ presentation presented as professional dress and tidy background; ‘casual’ presentation presented as relaxed dress and messy background. We operationalized the social status impression as a subjective social status ranking. We found that there was a significant difference of social status ranking scores between ‘smart’ and ‘casual’ condition, and that the ranking in ‘smart’ condition was higher than ‘casual’ condition. Additionally, we conducted a Pearson correlation test and found a positive correction between social status ranking and trustworthiness ranking. According to this study, individuals could infer others’ social status via clothing and background cues during online interaction. Our study represents for the first demonstration of status impressions via online video presentation.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yixuan Li
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/06/01
TI  - The Effect of Presentation and First Impressions in the Webcam on Social Status Judgments
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1060
EP  - 1065
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220504.193
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220504.193
ID  - Li2022
ER  -