Evidence from meta-analyses of the facial width-to-height ratio as an evolved cue of threat

SN Geniole, TF Denson, BJ Dixson, JM Carré… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The facial width-to-height ratio (FWHR) is the width of the face divided by the height of the
upper face. There is mixed evidence for the hypothesis that the FWHR is a cue of threat and …

Racial bias in judgments of physical size and formidability: From size to threat.

JP Wilson, K Hugenberg, NO Rule - Journal of personality and …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Black men tend to be stereotyped as threatening and, as a result, may be disproportionately
targeted by police even when unarmed. Here, we found evidence that biased perceptions of …

Integrating faces and bodies: Psychological and neural perspectives on whole person perception

Y Hu, A Baragchizadeh, AJ O'Toole - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2020 - Elsevier
The human “person” is a common percept we encounter. Research on person perception
has been focused either on face or body perception—with less attention paid to whole …

Telling facial metrics: facial width is associated with testosterone levels in men

CE Lefevre, GJ Lewis, DI Perrett, L Penke - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2013 - Elsevier
High facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) has been associated with a cluster of behavioural
traits in men, including aggression and status-striving. This association between face …

Face of a fighter: Bizygomatic width as a cue of formidability

S Zilioli, AN Sell, M Stirrat, J Jagore… - Aggressive …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Humans can accurately extract information about men's formidability from their faces;
however, the actual facial cues that inform these judgments have not been established …

[HTML][HTML] “Thinstagram”: Image content and observer body satisfaction influence the when and where of eye movements during instagram image viewing

GG Scott, Z Pinkosova, E Jardine, CJ Hand - Computers in Human …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Selective Exposure Theory (Aruguete & Calvo, 2018; Bigné et al., 2020) suggests
that on social media, viewers pay most attention to content which aligns with their values …

Facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) is not associated with adolescent testosterone levels

CR Hodges-Simeon, KN Hanson Sobraske, T Samore… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) has been proposed as a sexually dimorphic signal in
humans that develops under the influence of pubertal testosterone (T); however, no studies …

Perception of health from facial cues

AJ Henderson, IJ Holzleitner… - … Transactions of the …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Impressions of health are integral to social interactions, yet poorly understood. A review of
the literature reveals multiple facial characteristics that potentially act as cues to health …

A computational approach to body mass index prediction from face images

L Wen, G Guo - Image and Vision Computing, 2013 - Elsevier
Human faces encode plenty of useful information. Recent studies in psychology and human
perception have found that facial features have relations to human weight or body mass …

The other-race effect and holistic processing across racial groups

HK Wong, AJ Estudillo, ID Stephen, DRT Keeble - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
It is widely accepted that holistic processing is important for face perception. However, it
remains unclear whether the other-race effect (ORE)(ie superior recognition for own-race …