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Internal facial features are signals of personality and health
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2010.
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Abstract
- We investigated forms of socially relevant information signalled from static images of the face. We created composite images from women scoring high and low values on personality and health dimensions and measured the accuracy of raters in discriminating high from low trait values. We also looked specifically at the information content within the internal facial features, by presenting the composite images with an occluding mask. Four of the Big Five traits were accurately discriminated on the basis of the internal facial features alone (conscientiousness was the exception), as was physical health. The addition of external features in the full-face images led to improved detection for extraversion and physical health and poorer performance on intellect/imagination (or openness). Visual appearance based on internal facial features alone can therefore accurately predict behavioural biases in the form of personality, as well as levels of physical health.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Physiology
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Health Status
education
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Developmental psychology
Beauty
Young Adult
Physiology (medical)
Openness to experience
Personality
Humans
Big Five personality traits
General Psychology
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Extraversion and introversion
Social perception
C182 Evolution
Conscientiousness
General Medicine
C830 Experimental Psychology
Visual appearance
C800 Psychology
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Social Perception
Face
Trait
Visual Perception
Female
Psychology
Photic Stimulation
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....40cb6df85f3bd3dbe9ad80fc3184e678