What makes a face attractive and why do we have the preferences we do? Emergence of
preferences early in development and cross-cultural agreement on attractiveness challenge …

Since the early twentieth century, psychologists have known that there is consensus in
attributing social and personality characteristics from facial appearance. Recent studies …

Where did we come from? What is our connection with other life forms? What are the
mechanisms of mind that define what it means to be a human being? Evolutionary …

We show that inferences of competence based solely on facial appearance predicted the
outcomes of US congressional elections better than chance (eg, 68.8% of the Senate races …

Humans in societies around the world discriminate between potential mates on the basis of
attractiveness in ways that can dramatically affect their lives. From an evolutionary …

Using an inductive theory-development study, a field experiment, and a longitudinal field
test, we examine early-stage entrepreneurial investment decision making under conditions …

Previous studies have shown that trustworthiness judgments from facial appearance
approximate general valence evaluation of faces (Oosterhof & Todorov, 2008) and are made …

Literature in evolutionary psychology suggests that mate choice has been the primary
mechanism of sexual selection in humans, but this conclusion conforms neither to …

Recent research has shown that rapid judgments about the personality traits of political
candidates, based solely on their appearance, can predict their electoral success. This …

When Darwin proposed that females shape evolution by being choosy in their choice of
male suitors, his Victorian contemporaries were shocked that he accorded so much …