Psychological Sciences Seminar Series: Deep and Shallow Meanings of Facial Appearance
1:00pm - 2:00pm /
Wednesday 7th October 2015
Type: Seminar /
Category: Department
- Dr Craig Thorley
- Admission: Free
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Professor Robert Ward from University of Bangor delivers the first Psychological Sciences Seminar Series of the academic year. Humans are both highly visual and highly social beings. We know people sometimes make rash social inferences from mere appearance. But surprisingly (at least for me), for many important social traits, inferences from facial appearance can be better than chance. More concretely, within a controlled photograph of neutral expression there are evidently valid cues to behavioural dispositions. I will discuss our findings on identification of personality and mental health risk, and how these "broadcasts" of social traits can be concealed or exaggerated by voluntary behaviours. Finally I will consider how appearance-based inferences might be related to adaptive theories of communicative signals