Domestication is the process whereby a population of living organisms is changed at the genetic level, through generations of selective breeding, to accentuate traits that ultimately benefit the interests of humans.
Animals have been tricking each other by accentuating desirable traits for millennia.
Since then, humans have bred their canine companions to accentuate various traits and shapes.
Given that people appear to be sensitive to variation in impressions produced by different photographs (Todorov & Porter, 2014) and are motivated to portray themselves favorably in profile images (Hancock & Toma, 2009; Siibak, 2009), we predicted that people would be able to select images of themselves to accentuate positive traits.
The association of ADHD with behavioral traits accentuated participants' reflections upon their self or person.
Consistent with predictions based on studies of self-presentation (e.g., Hancock & Toma, 2009; Siibak, 2009), the pattern of results observed in the Calibration experiment lends broad support to the notion that people select images of themselves to accentuate positive trait impressions and that these selections are fitted to specific social networking contexts (cf. Leary & Allen, 2011).
First, the interaction between Context and Trait was significant (see Fig. 3c [left]: F [4, 858] = 73.8; p < 0.001 ηp 2 = 0.256), indicating that different traits were accentuated in different online contexts.
By contrast, the essence of caricature is making people look ugly, or at least accentuating unusual physical traits.
A female lead character with exaggerated "feminine" qualities is often added to accentuate the masculine traits of the hero.
The Beats 1 shows are like social media, in that they accentuate specific personality traits and enhance the dialogue between artist and audience.
