Physiognomy, the art of reading personality traits from faces, dates back to ancient Greece,
and is still very popular. The present studies examine several aspects and consequences of …

In this study 146 college students rated 23 perceived physiognomic and 35 perceived
personality traits of 24 individuals' photographs chosen from back issues of a national news …

In the 25 years or so that I have been studying aspects of face perception, the face has
moved from being an idiosyncratic and marginal topic of investigation for the perceptual …

The perception and memory of faces have been accounted for by the processing of two
kinds of facial information: featural and configurational. The starting point of this article is the …

Three experiments are reported in which undergraduate subjects made simple perceptual
judgements about the faces of familiar and unfamiliar academic staff. Any effects of …

People readily make personality attributions to images of strangers' faces. Here we
investigated the basis of these personality attributions as made to everyday, naturalistic face …

A pool of 128 schematic faces was generated by varying brow, mouth, nose, eye height, and
eye shape. Ratings of meaningfulness (how easy it was to find an adjective describing the …

Illustrates an application of the ecological approach to analyzing the impact on social
perception of age-related variations in craniofacial appearance. The ecological approach to …

He looks like someone I can trust, and intelligent too. Must be about 50 years old, and I bet
his family came from Norway. You can tell he's had a lot of laughs in his life, but right now he …

The encoding and relative importance of first-order (discrete) and second-order (configural)
features in mental representations of unfamiliar faces have been investigated. Nonmetric …