Previous research on non-facial features demonstrated that masculinity and femininity correlated highly with perceived competence and warmth, respectively. Several studies focused on dimorphic facial cues and found an association between masculine faces and competence. However, there’s no study exploring the association between facial dimorphism and social judgment both using explicit and implicit experimental paradigms, i.e. Triad Classification Task, Implicit Associate Task. This study examined the association of masculinity/femininity and competence/warmth via explicit and implicit measures in three experiments. The results showed that participants saw feminine/masculine faces as more consistent with warmth/competence for both male and female faces. Besides, it was found that the above associations were more obvious in female participants. The current studies extended research of effects of dimorphic facial cue in social judgment and provided direct evidence linking facial masculinity with perceived competence, and facial femininity with perceived warmth.

先前对非面部特征的研究表明，男性气质和女性气质分别与感知能力和温暖程度高度相关。几项研究重点关注二态面部线索，发现男性面孔与能力之间存在关联。然而，目前还没有研究同时使用显性和隐性实验范式（即三元组分类任务、隐性关联任务）来探索面部二态性与社会判断之间的关联。本研究通过三个实验中的显性和隐性测量来检验男性气质/女性气质与能力/温暖的关联。结果表明，参与者认为女性/男性面孔更符合男性和女性面孔的温暖/能力。此外，研究发现上述关联在女性参与者中更为明显。目前的研究扩展了二态面部线索对社会判断影响的研究，并提供了将面部男性气质与感知能力、面部女性气质与感知温暖联系起来的直接证据。