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 …

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

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 …

Facial appearance evokes robust impressions of other people's personality traits. Recent
research suggests that the trait space arising from face-based impressions shifts due to …

Using a composite-face paradigm, we show that social judgments from faces rely on holistic
processing. Participants judged facial halves more positively when aligned with trustworthy …

P eople routinely make judgments based on social categories (ie, categories that place an
individual within a larger social group such as sex, race, sexual orientation, religion …

“We look at a person and immediately a certain impression of his character forms itself in us.
A glance, a few spoken words are sufficient to tell us a story about a highly complex matter …

Facial expressions are of eminent importance for social interaction as they convey
information about other individuals' emotions and social intentions. According to the …

Categorical perception of robustly represented faces (self, friend) and unfamiliar faces is
investigated, and the relative roles of configural and featural information are examined …