Facial first impressions from another angle

How social judgements are influenced by changeable and invariant facial properties

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7676402
AutoresClare A M Sutherland (0000-0003-0443-3412, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders School of Psychology University of Western Australia Crawley WA Australia, autor de correspondencia), Andrew W Young (0000-0002-1202-6297, Department of Psychology University of York Heslington North Yorkshire UK), Gary Rhodes (0000-0002-3631-8518, The University of Western Australia), Gillian Rhodes (ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders School of Psychology University of Western Australia Crawley WA Australia)
Año2017
Volumen108
Número2
Páginas397-415
Fecha de publicación2017-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBritish Journal of Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0007-1269 • E-ISSN: 2044-8295
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/bjop.12206
PMID27443971
OpenAlexW2479750831
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas37
Referencias citadas48

First impressions made to photographs of faces can depend as much on momentary characteristics of the photographed image (within‐person variability) as on consistent properties of the face of the person depicted (between‐person variability). Here, we examine two important sources of within‐person variability: emotional expression and viewpoint. We find more within‐person variability than between‐person variability for social impressions of key traits of trustworthiness, dominance, and attractiveness, which index the main dimensions in theoretical models of facial impressions. The most important source of this variability is the emotional expression of the face, but the viewpoint of the photograph also affects impressions and modulates the effects of expression. For example, faces look most trustworthy with a happy expression when they are facing the perceiver, compared to when they are facing elsewhere, whereas the opposite is true for anger and disgust. Our findings highlight the integration of these different sources of variability in social impression formation

Cognitive psychology · Facial expression · Invariant (physics) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Communication · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Face Recognition and Perception · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology