According to the facial feedback hypothesis, people’s affective responses can be influenced
by their own facial expression (eg, smiling, pouting), even when their expression did not …

A social-functional approach to face processing comes with a number of assumptions. First,
given that humans possess limited cognitive resources, it assumes that we naturally allocate …

It might seem a reasonable assumption that when we are not actively using our faces to
express ourselves (ie, when we display nonexpressive, or neutral faces), those around us will …

In crowds, where scrutinizing individual facial expressions is inefficient, humans can make
snap judgments about the prevailing mood by reading ‘crowd emotion’. We investigated how …

Research in person and face perception has broadly focused on group-level consensus
that individuals hold when making judgments of others (eg, “X type of face looks trustworthy”). …

Abstract Machine learning findings suggest Eurocentric (aka White/European) faces
structurally resemble anger more than Afrocentric (aka Black/African) faces (eg, Albohn, 4 ; …

Despite the prevalent use of neutral faces in expression research, the term neutral still remains
ill-defined and understudied. A general assumption is that one’s overt attempt to pose a …

Previous research has demonstrated how emotion resembling cues in the face help shape
impression formation (ie, emotion overgeneralization). Perhaps most notable in the literature …

This chapter focuses on emotion-relevant information that is consistently and reliably extracted
from so-called “neutral” faces. We argue that individuals draw strong inferences about …

In this chapter, we examine how the ecological model of vision can be applied to person
perception, with a specific emphasis on the combinatorial nature of face perception. Key …