Universals and cultural differences in forming personality trait judgments from faces

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 609-617

  Walker, Mirella ^a   Jiang, Fang ^b   Vetter, Thomas ^a   Sczesny, Sabine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

culture; faces; impression formation; trait judgments

Indexed keywords

EID: 83755206181     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550611402519     Document Type: Review

References (28)

1. Albright L.,Kenny D.A.,Malloy T.E.Consensus in personality judgments at zero acquaintance.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 1988;55:387-395.
2. Albright L.,Malloy T.E.,Dong Q.,Kenny D.A.,Fang X.,Winquist L.,Yu D.Cross-cultural consensus in personality judgments.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 1997;72:558-569.
3. Bachmann T.,Nurmoja M.Are there affordances of suggestibility in facial appearance.Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. 2006;30:87-92.
4. Blair I.V.,Judd C.M.,Chapleau K.M.The influence of Afrocentric facial features in criminal sentencing.Psychological Science. 2004;15:674-679.
5. Blanz V.,Vetter T.A morphable model for the synthesis of 3D faces.Proceedings of Siggraph'99. 1999;:178-194.
6. Borkenau P.,Liebler A.Trait inferences: Sources of validity at zero-acquaintance.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 1992;62:645-657.
7. Bruce V.,Young A.Understanding face recognition.British Journal of Psychology. 1986;77:305-327.
8. Eberhardt J.L.,Davies P.G.,Purdie-Vaughns V.J.,Johnson S.L.Looking deathworthy. Perceived stereotypicality of Black defendants predicts capital-sentencing outcomes.Psychological Science. 2006;17:383-386.
9. Jaccard J.,Wan C.K.LISREL approaches to interaction effects in multiple regression. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage; 1996:.
10. JeH.KimS.JunB.KimD.KimH.SungJ.BangS. (2001). Asian face image database PF01: Intelligent multimedia lab. Retrieved fromhttp://imlab.postech.ac.kr/publications/paper/12%20pf01.pdf.
11. Keating C.F.,Mazur A.,Segall M.H.A cross-cultural exploration of physiognomic traits of dominance and happiness.Ethology and Sociobiology. 1981;2:41-48.
12. Montepare J.M.,Dobisch H.The contribution of emotion perceptions and their overgerneralizations to trait impressions.Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. 2003;27:237-254.
13. Montepare J.M.,Zebrowitz McArthur L.Person perception comes of age: The salience and significance of age in social judgments.Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. 1998;30:93-161.
14. Naumann L.P.,Vazire S.,Rentfrow P.J.,Gosling S.D.Personality judgments based on physical appearance.Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 2009;35:1661-1671.
15. O'Toole A.J.,Vetter T.,Troje N.F.,Bülthoff H.H.Sex classification is better with three-dimensional head structure than with image intensity information.Perception. 1997;26:75-84.
16. O'Toole, A. J.,Wenger, M. J., & Townsend, J. T. (1998). Quantitative models of perceiving and remembering faces: Precedents and possibilities. In M.J. Wenger & J. T. Townsend (Eds.), Computational, geometric, and process perspectives on facial cognition (pp. 1-38). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
17. Phillips P.J.,Wechsler H.,Huang J.,Rauss P.J.The feret database and evaluation procedure for face-recognition algorithms.Image and Vision Computing. 1998;16:295-306.
18. Sczesny S.,Spreemann S.,Stahlberg D.Masculine = competent? Physical appearance and sex as sources of gender-stereotypic attributions.Swiss Journal of Psychology. 2006;65:15-23.
19. Todorov A.,Mandisodza A.N.,Goren A.,Hall C.C.Inferences of competence from faces predict election outcomes.Science. 2005;308:1623-1626.
20. Valentine T.A unified account of the effects of distinctiveness, inversion, and race in face recognition.The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 1991;43:161-204.
21. Walker M.,Vetter T.Portraits made to measure. Manipulating social judgments about individuals with a statistical face model.Journal of Vision. 2009;9:1-13.
22. Williams J.E.,Best D.L.Measuring sex stereotypes: A multination study. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage; 1990:.
23. Zebrowitz L.,Montepare J.M.Social psychological face perception: Why appearance matters.Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 2008;2:1497-1517.
24. Zebrowitz L.,Montepare J.M.,Lee H.K.They don't all look alike: Individuated impressions of other racial groups.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 1993;65:85-101.
25. Zebrowitz L.,Rhodes G.Sensitivity to "bad genes" and the anomalous face overgeneralization effect: Cue validity, cue utilization, and accuracy in judging intelligence and health.Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. 2004;28:167-185.
26. Zebrowitz L.A.,Andreoletti C.,Collins M.A.,Lee S.Y.,Blumenthal J.Bright, bad, babyfaced boys: Appearance stereotypes do not always yield self-fulfilling prophecy effects.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 1998;75:1300-1320.
27. Zebrowitz L.A.,Fellous J. -M.,Mignault A.,Andreoletti C.Trait impressions as overgeneralized responses to adaptively significant facial qualities: Evidence from connectionist modeling.Personality and Social Psychology Review. 2003;7:194-215.
28. Zebrowitz L.A.,Hall J.A.,Murphy N.A.,Rhodes G.Looking smart is looking good: Facial cues to intelligence and their origins.Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 2002;28:238-249.