Academic Abstract Clothing, hairstyle, makeup, and accessories influence first impressions.
However, target dress is notably absent from current theories and models of person …

Biological and artificial information processing systems form representations of the world
that they can use to categorize, reason, plan, navigate, and make decisions. To what extent …

Despite substantial literature surrounding how people process and perceive faces, there is
very little research investigating how people evaluate their own faces. We examined how …

Facial impressions have long been argued to be driven by two independent dimensions of
trustworthiness and dominance. However, in an intergroup context, we reasoned that these …

Although the use of face masks was widespread during the COVID‐19 pandemic, their
impact on social perceptions is unclear. Notably, research that has investigated the …

Social vision research, which examines, in part, how humans visually perceive social stimuli,
is well-positioned to improve understandings of social inequality. However, social vision …

Social class is a powerful hierarchy that determines many privileges and disadvantages.
People form impressions of others' social class (like other important social attributes) from …

In psychology and other fields, data often have a cross-classified structure, whereby
observations are nested within multiple types of non-hierarchical clusters (eg, repeated …

On encountering a stranger, we spontaneously attribute to them character traits (eg,
trustworthiness, intelligence) based on their facial appearance. Participants can base …

What makes faces seem trustworthy? We investigated how racial prejudice predicts the
extent to which perceivers employ racially prototypical cues to infer trustworthiness from …