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 …

What makes a face attractive and why do we have the preferences we do? Emergence of
preferences early in development and cross-cultural agreement on attractiveness challenge …

People are very skilled at understanding each other's facial expressions. The physiological
literature also suggests differences in the neural coding of facial identity and expression in …

Six experiments based on visual preference procedures were conducted to examine gender
categorization of female versus male faces by infants aged 3 to 4 months. In experiment 1 …

We review the literature on sex differences and the own-gender bias in face recognition. By
means of a meta-analysis, we found that girls and women remember more faces than boys …

People are excellent at identifying faces familiar to them, even from very low quality images,
but are bad at recognizing, or even matching, unfamiliar faces. In this review we shall …

Despite our fluency in reading human faces, sometimes we mistakenly perceive illusory
faces in objects, a phenomenon known as face pareidolia. Although illusory faces share …

Pictures of facial expressions from the Ekman and Friesen set (Ekman, P., Friesen,
WV,(1976). Pictures of facial affect. Palo Alto, California: Consulting Psychologists Press) …

Across 5 experimental studies, the authors explore selective processing biases for
physically attractive others. The findings suggest that (a) both male and female observers …

Attractiveness is a facial attribute that shapes human affiliative behaviours. In a previous
study we reported a linear response to facial attractiveness in orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a …