A social-functional approach to face processing comes with a number of assumptions. First,
given that humans possess limited cognitive resources, it assumes that we naturally allocate …

The face is the most richly informative and pervasive social stimulus we encounter in our
daily lives and by far the most thoroughly researched. The proverbial warning “don't judge a …

For decades the study of social perception was largely compartmentalized by type of social
cue: race, gender, emotion, eye gaze, body language, facial expression etc. This was partly …

In this chapter, we examine how the ecological model of vision can be applied to person
perception, with a specific emphasis on the combinatorial nature of face perception. Key …

The perception of social categories, emotions, and personality traits from others' faces each
have been studied extensively, but in relative isolation. We synthesize emerging findings …

The human face provides a wealth of information about others, including both situationally
invariant information such as facial identity and social categories and situationally variable …

The fact that the face is a source of diverse social signals allows us to use face and person
perception as a model system for asking important psychological questions about how our …

Humans' fascination with faces dates to ancient times and spans diverse cultures (cf.
Zebrowitz, 1997). Scientific attention to faces is more recent. Fifty years ago, an investigator …

Faces provide vital social information which shapes one's interactions. A response to a
person depends on one's perception of their identity, sex, age, attractiveness, health, and …

Nothing could be more obvious than the importance of facial displays in understanding other
actors. What is surprising is the extent to which scholars of person perception have …