96 - Jon Freeman: Reading Faces
Stanford Psychology Podcast
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The Importance of Facial Cues for Social Perception
There's a number of different cues that have been shown to be really important for social perception. A lot of it, the research suggests that we what's called over generalization and we overgeneralize from emotion. These are things that relate to anger and happy expressions but at a very mutual level, those are read as untrustworthy or trustworthy respectively. One cue is the facial widths high ratio so the bi zygomatic widths which relates to puberty levels of testosterone in men.
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