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 …

Since the early twentieth century, psychologists have known that there is consensus in
attributing social and personality characteristics from facial appearance. Recent studies …

The diversity of human faces and the contexts in which they appear gives rise to an
expansive stimulus space over which people infer psychological traits (eg, trustworthiness or …

Previous research argued that stereotypes differ primarily on the 2 dimensions of
warmth/communion and competence/agency. We identify an empirical gap in support for this …

According to a widely used theoretical perspective, our everyday experiences lead us to
become natural experts at perceiving and recognising human faces. However, there has …

On hearing a novel voice, listeners readily form personality impressions of that speaker.
Accurate or not, these impressions are known to affect subsequent interactions; yet the …

Abstract Models of person perception have long asserted that our impressions of others are
guided by characteristics of both the target and perceiver. However, research has not yet …

Impressions from faces are made remarkably quickly and they can underpin behaviour in a
wide variety of social contexts. Over the last decade many studies have sought to trace the …

Over the past 10 years, Oosterhof and Todorov's valence–dominance model has emerged
as the most prominent account of how people evaluate faces on social dimensions. In this …

Research in face recognition has tended to focus on discriminating between individuals, or
“telling people apart.” It has recently become clear that it is also necessary to understand …