Over the past few decades, two-factor models of social cognition have emerged as a
dominant framework for understanding impression development. These models suggest that …

While hypothesis testing is a highly formalized activity, hypothesis generation remains
largely informal. We propose a systematic procedure to generate novel hypotheses about …

The diversity of human faces and the contexts in which they appear gives rise to an
expansive stimulus space over which people infer psychological traits (eg, trustworthiness or …

Impressions from faces are made remarkably quickly and they can underpin behaviour in a
wide variety of social contexts. Over the last decade many studies have sought to trace the …

Synthetic biometric samples are created with an ultimate goal of getting around privacy
concerns, mitigating biases in biometric datasets, and reducing the sample acquisition effort …

People readily (but often inaccurately) attribute traits to others based on faces. While the
details of attributions depend on the language available to describe social traits …

Judgements of trustworthiness based on facial features have mainly been investigated by
presenting faces in isolation. However, real-life situations often involve contextual cues …

Research on face impressions has often focused on a fixed, universal architecture, treating
regional variability as noise. Here, we demonstrated a crucial yet neglected role of cultural …

In some online interactions, people use avatars to represent themselves and judge whether
interaction partners should be trusted. However, little is known about human accuracy in …

Typically, individuals are motivated to see themselves in a flattering light regarding their
physical and personality characteristics. We suggest that visual self‐perception is anchored …