Accuracy in Face Perception: A View from Ecological Psychology

Diane S. Berry · Julia L. Finch Wero

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Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior Personality Traits and Psychology Face Recognition and Perception

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ABSTRACT 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 the face is typically thought to reflect cultural beliefs about mythical relations between aspects of facial appearance and personality. However, recent cross‐cultural and developmental research does not support the mythical, cultural stereotype hypothesis. An alternative explanation of the data is that consensus in face‐based impressions exists because those judgments are partially accurate. In this article, we explore the theoretical rationale for this “kernel‐of‐truth” hypothesis, review research that indicates that first impressions based on facial appearance are partially accurate, and discuss the potential mechanisms that may yield links between aspects of facial appearance and personality.

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