People automatically evaluate faces on multiple trait dimensions, and these evaluations
predict important social outcomes, ranging from electoral success to sentencing decisions …

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

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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

The role of face typicality in face recognition is well established, but it is unclear whether
face typicality is important for face evaluation. Prior studies have focused mainly on …

The belief in physiognomy—the art of reading character from faces—has been with us for
centuries–. People everywhere infer traits (for example, trustworthiness) from faces, and …

Over the past 10 years, Oosterhof and Todorov's valence–dominance model has emerged
as the most prominent account of how people evaluate faces on social dimensions. In this …