Can You Know If Someone's Friendly Just By Looking at His Face? Maybe Not
Would you believe we think we can tell other peoples personalities based on their faces? Well, if we have pre-existing beliefs about how personality works, that's how we judge personality. It all depends on our pre-existing beliefs about how personality actually works, newswise.com reports. "We make snap judgments of others based not only on their facial appearance, but also on our pre-existing beliefs about how others’ personalities work, finds a new study by a team of psychology researchers," the web site explains. A new study led by Jonathan Freeman, the paper’s senior author and an associate professor in NYU’s Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science, underscores how we interpret others’ facial features to form impressions of their personalities. "People form personality impressions from others’ facial appearance within only a few hundred milliseconds,” observes Freeman. “Our findings suggest th...