The role of face typicality in face recognition is well established, but it is unclear whether
face typicality is important for face evaluation. Prior studies have focused mainly on …

Previous work showed high agreement in facial attractiveness preferences within and
across cultures. The aims of the current study were twofold. First, we tested cross-cultural …

The authors examined the generalizability of first impressions from faces previously
documented in industrialized cultures to the Tsimane'people in the remote Bolivian …

An emerging body of research has demonstrated that facial color can influence a range of
social judgments. The current article reviews facial color for three interconnected lines of …

Positive behavioral responses to attractive faces have led neuroscientists to investigate
underlying neural mechanisms in a “reward circuit” that includes brain regions innervated by …

The authors present a framework to better account for the social dimensions people use to
categorize others and the nuanced stereotypes they hold. Conceiving stereotypes as …

Prosocially oriented individuals tend to respond to care-relevant stimuli in a highly
embodied manner. Research on facets of prosocial orientation—such as empathy—and …

A body of research is reviewed that has investigated how infants respond to social category
information in faces based on differential experience. Whereas some aspects of behavioral …

Cultural wisdom enjoins us not to judge a book by its cover, an admonition suggesting that
our natural proclivity is in fact to judge people by their appearance. And, indeed, we do …

Younger adults (YA) attribute emotion-related traits to people whose neutral facial structure
resembles an emotion (emotion overgeneralization). The fact that older adults (OA) show …