Pervading global narratives suggest that political polarization is increasing, yet the accuracy of such group meta-perceptions has been drawn into question. A recent US study suggests that these beliefs are inaccurate and drive polarized beliefs about out-groups. However, it also found that informing people of inaccuracies reduces those negative beliefs. In this work, we explore whether these results generalize to other countries. To achieve this, we replicate two of the original experiments with 10,207 participants across 26 countries. We focus on local group divisions, which we refer to as fault lines. We find broad generalizability for both inaccurate meta-perceptions and reduced negative motive attribution through a simple disclosure intervention. We conclude that inaccurate and negative group meta-perceptions are exhibited in myriad contexts and that informing individuals of their misperceptions can yield positive benefits for intergroup relations. Such generalizability highlights a robust phenomenon with implications for political discourse worldwide.

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• generalizace (psychologie) MeSH
• komunikační bariéry MeSH
• kultura MeSH
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• politika * MeSH
• předsudek * prevence a kontrola   psychologie   MeSH
• racionalizace MeSH
• skupinové procesy * MeSH
• sociální chování * MeSH
• sociální percepce psychologie   MeSH
• sociální změna MeSH
• sociologické faktory MeSH
• srovnání kultur MeSH
• stereotypizace MeSH
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• lidé MeSH
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• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH

Over the past 10 years, Oosterhof and Todorov's valence-dominance model has emerged as the most prominent account of how people evaluate faces on social dimensions. In this model, two dimensions (valence and dominance) underpin social judgements of faces. Because this model has primarily been developed and tested in Western regions, it is unclear whether these findings apply to other regions. We addressed this question by replicating Oosterhof and Todorov's methodology across 11 world regions, 41 countries and 11,570 participants. When we used Oosterhof and Todorov's original analysis strategy, the valence-dominance model generalized across regions. When we used an alternative methodology to allow for correlated dimensions, we observed much less generalization. Collectively, these results suggest that, while the valence-dominance model generalizes very well across regions when dimensions are forced to be orthogonal, regional differences are revealed when we use different extraction methods and correlate and rotate the dimension reduction solution. PROTOCOL REGISTRATION: The stage 1 protocol for this Registered Report was accepted in principle on 5 November 2018. The protocol, as accepted by the journal, can be found at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7611443.v1 .

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• dospělí MeSH
• emoce MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• mínění MeSH
• mladiství MeSH
• mladý dospělý MeSH
• psychologické modely MeSH
• sociální percepce etnologie   psychologie   MeSH
• srovnání kultur MeSH
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• dospělí MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• mladiství MeSH
• mladý dospělý MeSH
• mužské pohlaví MeSH
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• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH