Personality at Face Value: Facial Appearance Predicts Self and Other Personality Judgments among Strangers and Spouses

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 259-277

  Petrican, Raluca ^a   Todorov, Alexander ^b   Grady, Cheryl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big five; Dominance; Facial appearance; Married couples; Trustworthiness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898546014     PISSN: 01915886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10919-014-0175-3     Document Type: Article

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