Abstract Sutherland and Young (Br. J. Psychol., 113, 2022, 1056) provide a comprehensive
and timely overview of recent developments in research on social judgements of faces …

Two questions have motivated much of our research. What is the structure of social
judgments from faces and what is the perceptual basis of these judgments? Twelve years …

Three experiments are presented that investigate the two-dimensional valence/
trustworthiness by dominance model of social inferences from faces (Oosterhof & Todorov …

A paradoxical finding from recent studies of face perception is that observers are error-prone
and inconsistent when judging the identity of unfamiliar faces, but nevertheless reasonably …

People reliably and automatically make personality inferences from facial appearance
despite little evidence for their accuracy. Although such inferences are highly inter …

Faces are one of the most potent social stimuli conveying information about social
categories (eg, sex, age, race), mental states (eg, puzzled), emotional states (eg, angry) …

Face perception is based on both shape and reflectance information. However, we know
little about the relative contribution of these kinds of information to social judgments of faces …

Observers make a range of social evaluations based on facial appearance, including
judgments of trustworthiness, warmth, competence, and other aspects of personality. What …

People rapidly form impressions from facial appearance, and these impressions affect social
decisions. We argue that data-driven, computational models are the best available tools for …

First impressions of social traits, such as trustworthiness or dominance, are reliably
perceived in faces, and despite their questionable validity they can have considerable real …