As a highly social species, humans are equipped with a powerful tool for social
communication—the face. Although seemingly simple, the human face can elicit multiple …

As a highly social species, humans frequently exchange social information to support almost
all facets of life. One of the richest and most powerful tools in social communication is the …

Highlights•Classic methods to explore facial displays across cultures provide limited
knowledge.•New interdisciplinary approaches widen the focus on facial displays and …

“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 …

Both faces and voices are rich in socially-relevant information, which humans are
remarkably adept at extracting, including a person's identity, age, gender, affective state …

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 …

Faces are not simply blank canvases upon which facial expressions write their emotional
messages. In fact, facial appearance and facial movement are both important social …

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

Animals use social camouflage as a tool of deceit to increase the likelihood of survival and
reproduction. We tested whether humans can also strategically deploy transient facial …