Can you speak to the origins of the differences in which people perceive others? There’s a ton of evidence that individuals are treated differently, all else equal, on many bases (e.g., race, gender, gender conformity, sexual orientation, and so forth), but I’m not as aware of work in which the origins of such differences were explained outside of handwaving and just-so stories.

I would be curious to see what the percentages were of the respondents based on race, sexuality, and gender to see how they viewed these different people. This is a really relevant study in this day and age because influencers are all over social media, and seeing how others can perceive them based on conformity, race, and gender is very interesting.

This study was well researched and very relevant because of the influence social media has on a lot of people. Do you think people would have had different perceptions if you had incorporated other social media platforms, such as TikTok? Considering the research on implicit racial biases that you discussed, it would also be interesting to look at the demographic information of participants (i.e., their gender identity, race, or age) to see if that played a role in their responses. I really enjoyed listening to this study! Great job!

Great job making a trendy topic into a substantial research project for to learn from! There was a lot of interesting back literature such as gender non conformity and its significant relationship with aggression as well as even peer victimization and homophobia. Do you think peer victimization, homophobia, or any of the -isms are relevant in your results? With your results on non conformity and aggression, do you think the results showcased any of the -isms? As a whole, your topic of interest of gender impacting online interaction was very interesting.

I really enjoyed your presentation. I thought it was very interesting to know that white college students perceived black women. I wonder if that has to do anything to do with culture and upbringing. I also wonder if the social media feeds that are generated by the social media platforms have an effect on how people see gender, race and interest.

Hi guys really great study its been a pleasure watching this presentation grow from the beginning of the semester. I think it is very interesting you found signficance for the main effect of gender. I how people percieve people on social media is very different for those who are female and those who are male. I think espically with women there is such a stigma around what you post, and if you dont post well enough you almost get judged for it. I think it is also interesting that there was no significance with race. There is so much issues especially present day in relation to race. I feel like your study also assessed that being carried over to social media. Do you think results would deffered if using an app like tiktok? Tiktok is the most recent and popular app, do you think people’s perceptions would have changed? And also, do you think people have different perceptions on different platforms? What one person views on Instagram may be different to what they view on tiktok or facebook.

I’m actually really surprised that there wasn’t a significant difference when it comes to race or conforming vs nonconforming. I do think it’s super interesting that gender non conforming men were seen as more expressive, but it makes sense considering that most gender conforming men are stereotyped as less emotional and less expressive with their behavior and clothing. I would be really curious to see if there would racial differences if more than black and white were included. Great study guys, such a novel idea!

Great work guys!! I really like your topic! I expect to see more research on gender and social media (like tik tok) in the future especially sense it provides safe spaces for people to explore gender identity and push social norms.

Nancy, Hannah, and Destiny,

Awesome study! I have no social media so all this stuff is pretty foreign to me. I am not surprised at all that gender had a significant effect on the way influencers were viewed; however, despite many comments I am seeing here, I am also not too surprised race was not found to have a significant effect. It might be that the level of popularity and influence an influencer has is overrun by any judgement in regard to their race. There must be some factor unique to social media to yield these results. This study could be very interesting if done with only non-black and non-white participants. Perhaps individuals who are black and/or white rated the influencers in a more biased way.

Great job guys! I was surprised to see no significance, but such is life in semester-long research projects. I loved seeing that non-conforming men were seen as more expressive, because this does kind of back up toxic masculinity in a way, since it implies that gender-conforming men were perceived as being less expressive than non-conforming men. I would love to see a comparison between platforms too see whether of not the perceptions of people is different across social medias. It would be interesting to see if there is a platform that has either more or less gatekeeping, or to see if certain ratings would change based on the demographic that most often uses each specific platform.

Thanks for sharing your presentation! Wow! A MANOVA! You know I’ll be asking a statistics question 🙂

I’m a bit confused as to what your Dependent Variables were in the MANOVA. You used some semantic differential questions to measure how positively the influencers were viewed, but it wasn’t clear how many subscales the 61 items divided into. Based on your analysis, it appears that It seems like expressiveness was one of them. What was your other dependent variable? As for expressiveness, is it a good trait or a negative trait. It appeared that your nonconforming men were viewed as more expressive than your conforming men. Does that mean that you believe they were judged more positively?

Also, how did you define nonconforming?

Great job on your study guys! I found it so interesting that race was not a significant predictor! We had talked quite a bit in class about how race would mitigate this relationship. Do you think there is a specific reason why race was not significant in your study? I know several of our studies struggled with sample sizing, and that being the reasoning as to why some of our analyses weren’t significant. Similar to what someone had said previously though, I did find it very interesting to see that non-conforming men were seen as more expressive. I had brought it up in class previously, but I do believe that people tend to view those people on social media that are less conforming as more favorable to look at. They may be seen as an outlet to them if they in their own lives are constantly told to conform.

I think this turned out great. I think it’s interesting that gender-conforming influencers were thought to be more expressive. There must be a bias that people are being “themselves” when they conform to norms. I think people truly believe in feminine essences or something. I wonder if there would have been even less positive ratings if any of the influencers were specifically speaking out against gender norms and not just violating them. What do y’all think?