Despite the crucial role of physical appearance in forming first impressions, little research
has examined the accuracy of personality impressions based on appearance alone. This …

When it comes to person perception, does one “judge a book by its cover?” Perceivers made
judgments of liking, and of personality, based on a photograph of an unknown other, and at …

It is well documented that people form reliable and robust impressions of a stranger's
personality traits on the basis of facial appearance. The propensity to judge character from …

People readily make personality attributions to images of strangers' faces. Here we
investigated the basis of these personality attributions as made to everyday, naturalistic face …

In addition to signaling identity, sex, age, and emotional state, people frequently use facial
characteristics as a basis for personality attributions. Typically, there is a high degree of …

Beautiful people are seen more positively than others, but are they also seen more
accurately? In a round-robin design in which previously unacquainted individuals met for 3 …

Two studies examined the effects of the appearance of specific facial features on attributions
of personality. In Study 1, photographs of men and women were computer‐manipulated to …

The human tendency to form impressions of others is ubiquitous and consequential.
Consensus, or agreement among individuals, regarding their first impressions based on the …

Surprisingly minimal appearance cues lead perceivers to accurately judge others'
personality, status, or politics. We investigated people's precision in judging characteristics …

Gender is associated with interpersonal sensitivity across different domains, with females,
on average, demonstrating higher levels of interpersonal sensitivity than males. What …