The current work examined contributions of emotion-resembling facial cues to impression
formation. There exist common facial cues that make people look emotional, male or female …

Despite the prevalent use of neutral faces in expression research, the term neutral still
remains ill-defined and understudied. A general assumption is that one's overt attempt to …

First impressions made to photographs of faces can depend as much on momentary
characteristics of the photographed image (within‐person variability) as on consistent …

Which facial characteristics do people rely on when forming personality impressions?
Previous research has uncovered an array of facial features that influence people's …

Humans automatically form first impressions based on others' appearance, including their
perceived emotional state. When others' facial expressions are neutral, or “resting,” people …

This chapter focuses on emotion-relevant information that is consistently and reliably
extracted from so-called “neutral” faces. We argue that individuals draw strong inferences …

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

Although cultural wisdom warns us not to judge a book by its cover, we seem unable to
inhibit this tendency even though it can lead to inaccurate impressions of people's …

The happy face advantage, the faster recognition of happy than of negative, angry or fearful,
emotional expressions, has been reliably found and is modulated by social category cues …

Humans seamlessly infer the expanse of personality traits from others' facial appearance.
These facial impressions are highly intercorrelated within a structure known as “face trait …