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

Individuals are quite sensitive to others' appearance cues when forming social evaluations.
Cues such as facial emotional resemblance are based on facial musculature and thus …

Recognition of others' emotions is a key life ability that guides one's own choices and
behavior, and it hinges on the recognition of others' facial cues. Independent studies …

Forming specific facial expressions influences emotions and perception. Bearing this in
mind, studies should be reconsidered in which observers expressing neutral emotions …

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

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

People rapidly and automatically evaluate faces along many social dimensions. Here, we
focus on judgments of trustworthiness, which approximate basic valence evaluation of faces …

People routinely make various trait judgments from facial appearance, and such judgments
affect important social outcomes. These judgments are highly correlated with each other …

First impressions of traits are formed rapidly and nonconsciously, suggesting an automatic
process. We examined whether first impressions of trustworthiness are mandatory, another …

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 …