Social attributions from faces bias human choices

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 566-570

  Olivola, Christopher Y ^a   Funk, Friederike ^b   Todorov, Alexander ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Facial appearance; Facial stereotyping; Human decision making; Person perception; Social judgment

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE BIAS; DECISION MAKING; FACE ASYMMETRY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SOCIAL ASPECT; WELLBEING; FACE; LEADERSHIP; POLITICS; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; TRUST;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FACE; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; POLITICS; PREJUDICE; SOCIOLOGICAL FACTORS; TRUST;

EID: 84908373166     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.09.007     Document Type: Note

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