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 …

Many brain regions have been defined, but a comprehensive formalization of each region's
function in relation to human behavior is still lacking. Current knowledge comes from various …

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 …

Achieving the upper limits of face identification accuracy in forensic applications can
minimize errors that have profound social and personal consequences. Although forensic …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments around the world now
recommend, or require, that their citizens cover the lower half of their face in public …

Psychological studies of face recognition have typically ignored within-person variation in
appearance, instead emphasising differences between individuals. Studies typically assume …

Photo-ID is widely used in security settings, despite research showing that viewers find it
very difficult to match unfamiliar faces. Here we test participants with specialist experience …

Reflecting a decade's worth of changes, Human Safety and Risk Management, Second
Edition contains new chapters addressing safety culture and models of risk as well as an …

Recent research suggests that visual perception of social categories is shaped not only by
facial features but also by higher-order social cognitive processes (eg, stereotypes, attitudes …

Despite many years of research, there has been surprisingly little progress in our
understanding of how faces are identified. Here I argue that there are two contributory …