Facial features influence social evaluations. For example, faces are rated as more attractive
and trustworthy when they have more smiling features and also more female features …

Accurate classification of the emotional state of others is of vital importance to human social
functioning and is a process that relies heavily upon the extraction and processing of …

The speed of recognizing facial expressions of emotion is influenced by a range of factors
including other concurrently present facial attributes, like a person's sex. Typically, when …

The current studies investigate how social categorization may influence the perception of
facial expressions. Across two experiments, we find that the speed and accuracy of facial …

Two experiments competitively test 3 potential mechanisms (negativity inhibiting responses,
feature-based accounts, and evaluative context) for the response latency advantage for …

A happy face advantage has consistently been shown in emotion categorization tasks;
happy faces are categorized as happy faster than angry faces as angry. Furthermore, social …

Facial features that resemble emotional expressions influence key social evaluations,
including trust. Here, we present four experiments testing how the impact of such expressive …

Individuals spontaneously categorise other people on the basis of their gender, ethnicity and
age. But what about the emotions they express? In two studies we tested the hypothesis that …

The ability to correctly interpret facial expressions is key to effective social interactions.
People are well rehearsed and generally very efficient at correctly categorizing expressions …

People automatically generate first impressions from others' faces, even with limited time
and information. Most research on social face evaluation focuses on static morphological …