Recent work has shown that the idiosyncrasies of the observer can contribute more to the
variance of social judgments of faces than the features of the faces. However, it is unclear …

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 …

Existing models of facial identity perception often assume that information conveyed by
facial stimuli provides the sole basis for identity judgments, largely ignoring the involvement …

Extracting the dimensions of age, sex, race from faces is fundamental for many aspects of
social cognition such as person construal, impression formation, and social interaction …

Perceptions of an individual can change dramatically across different images of their face.
Questions remain as to whether some traits are more sensitive to image variability than …

This research utilized a novel methodology to explore the relative salience of facial cues to
age, sex, race, and emotion in differentiating faces. Inspired by the Stroop interference effect …

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 …

Human faces and voices are rich sources of information that can vary in many different ways.
Most of the literature on face/voice perception has focused on understanding how people …

Trustworthiness and dominance impressions summarize trait judgments from faces.
Judgments on these key traits are negatively correlated to each other in impressions of …

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 …