According to a widely used theoretical perspective, our everyday experiences lead us to
become natural experts at perceiving and recognising human faces. However, there has …

For decades, psychology has relied on highly standardized images to understand how
people respond to faces. Many of these stimuli are rigorously generated and supported by …

Face masks present a new challenge to face identification (here matching) and emotion
recognition in Western cultures. Here, we present the results of three experiments that test …

The idea that most of us are good at recognizing faces permeates everyday thinking and is
widely used in the research literature. However, it is a correct characterization only of …

Facial image comparison practitioners compare images of unfamiliar faces and decide
whether or not they show the same person. Given the importance of these decisions for …

Face recognition is a computationally challenging task that humans perform effortlessly.
Nonetheless, this remarkable ability is better for familiar faces than unfamiliar faces. To …

We investigated the relationships between individual differences in different aspects of face-
identity processing, using the Glasgow Face Matching Test (GFMT) as a measure of …

Identifying unfamiliar faces is surprisingly error-prone, even for experienced professionals
who perform this task regularly. Previous attempts to train this ability have been largely …

Abstract The Dunning–Kruger Effect refers to a common failure of metacognitive insight in
which people who are incompetent in a given domain are unaware of their incompetence …

First impressions of social traits, such as attractiveness, from faces are often claimed to be
made automatically, given their speed and reliability. However, speed of processing is only …