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The Roles of Featural and Configural Face Processing in Snap Judgments of Sexual Orientation 1 2 Joshua A. Tabak *, Vivian Zayas 1 Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, 2 Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America Abstract Research has shown that people are able to judge sexual orientation from faces with above-chance accuracy, but little is known about how these judgments are formed. Here, we investigated the importance of well-established face processing mechanisms in such judgments: featural processing (e.g., an eye) and configural processing (e.g., spatial distance between eyes). Participants judged sexual orientation from faces presented for 50 milliseconds either upright, which recruits both configural and featural processing, or upside-down, when configural processing is strongly impaired and featural processing remains relatively intact. Although participants judged women’s and men’s sexual orientation with above-chance accuracy for upright faces and for upside-down faces, accuracy for upside-down faces was significantly reduced. The reduced judgment accuracy for upside-down faces indicates that configural face processing significantly contributes to accurate snap judgments of sexual orientation. Citation: Tabak JA, Zayas V (2012) The Roles of Featural and Configural Face Processing in Snap Judgments of Sexual Orientation. PLoS ONE 7(5): e36671. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036671 Editor: Aldo Rustichini, University of Minnesota, United States of America Received October 5, 2011; Accepted April 5, 2012; Published May 16, 2012 Copyright: 2012 Tabak, Zayas. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attri