Are those who believe in physiognomy actually accurate in face-to-trait inference?

From the Editor: Web Systems Community--To Those Who Believe We are Done Already

Friends can sometimes be the harshest reviewers. The torture usually starts during a dinner party or other pleasant get together. One of them asks, "Could you tell me once more what your job is about?" At that point, it's already too late. Many of my friends aren't computer scientists, so I typically answer something along the lines of, "Well, I am doing research to improve the Web." Inevitably...

Development of Face - to - Trait Inference 1133

Human adults attribute character traits to faces readily and with high consensus. In two experiments investigating the development of face-to-trait inference, adults and children ages 3 through 10 attributed trustworthiness, dominance, and competence to pairs of faces. In Experiment 1, the attributions of 3to 4-year-olds converged with those of adults, and 5to 6-year-olds’ attributions were at ...

Taiwanese Political Parties can be Categorized by Face, by Those Who Reported Making Face-To-Trait Inferences

The present study aims to replicate and extend Rule and Ambady (2010a)'s findings that Republicans and Democrats could be differentiated by face. In Experiment 1, undergraduates categorized 50 gray-scale full-face photos of candidates of the two major political parties in Taiwan, the Kuomingtang (KMT) and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Using identical stimuli and procedure, Experiment ...

Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

Truth and investment: lies are told to those who care.

Participants discussed paintings they liked and disliked with artists who were or were not personally invested in them. Participants were urged to be honest or polite or were given no special instructions. There were no conditions under which the artists received totally honest feedback about the paintings they cared about. As predicted by the defensibility postulate, participants stonewalled, ...