Inferring whether officials are corruptible from looking at their faces

C Lin, R Adolphs, RM Alvarez - Psychological science, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
While inferences of traits from unfamiliar faces prominently reveal stereotypes, some facial
inferences also correlate with real-world outcomes. We investigated whether facial …

Looking bad: Inferring criminality after 100 ms

T Klatt, JJ Maltby, JE Humphries, HL Smailes, H Ryder… - 2016 - figshare.le.ac.uk
Research finds we make spontaneous trait inferences from facial appearance, even after
brief exposures to a face (ie,≤ 100 ms). We examined spontaneous impressions of …

Facial stereotype bias is mitigated by training

KW Chua, JB Freeman - Social Psychological and …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
People automatically infer others' personality (eg, trustworthiness) based on facial
appearance, and such facial stereotype biases predict real-world consequences across …

Social attributions from faces bias human choices

CY Olivola, F Funk, A Todorov - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2014 - cell.com
Our success and well-being, as individuals and societies, depend on our ability to make
wise social decisions about important interpersonal matters, such as the leaders we select …

Facial impressions are predicted by the structure of group stereotypes

SY Xie, JK Flake, RM Stolier… - Psychological …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Impressions of other people's faces (eg, trustworthiness) have long been thought to be
evoked by morphological variation (eg, upturned mouth) in a universal, fixed manner …

From faces to prosocial behavior: Cues, tools, and mechanisms

R Adolphs, A Tusche - Current directions in psychological …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
In this review, we ask how looking at people's faces can influence prosocial behaviors
toward them. Components of this process have been studied in two disparate literatures …

Internalized impressions: The link between apparent facial trustworthiness and deceptive behavior is mediated by targets' expectations of how they will be judged

ML Slepian, DR Ames - Psychological science, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Researchers have debated whether a person's behavior can be predicted from his or her
face. In particular, it is unclear whether people's trustworthiness can be predicted from their …

Learning to judge a book by its cover: Rapid acquisition of facial stereotypes

KW Chua, JB Freeman - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
People are able to quickly and automatically evaluate faces on different traits, such as
trustworthiness. There is a growing literature demonstrating that factors such as learning and …

Face-ism and kernels of truth in facial inferences

JF Bonnefon, A Hopfensitz, W De Neys - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2015 - cell.com
We very much agree with the conclusion of this argument. We as scientists must leverage
our understanding of facial judgments to design policies that will prevent people judging a …

Democrats and Republicans can be differentiated from their faces

NO Rule, N Ambady - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Individuals' faces communicate a great deal of information about them.
Although some of this information tends to be perceptually obvious (such as race and sex) …