Matt,
There's an interesting article on recognition of facial clues to people's characters.
The study used composite faces to compare self-assessed traits. A woman's personality traits may be "written all over her face", research has suggested.
The Glasgow University and New Scientist study examined whether self-assessed personality characteristics could be identified from appearance.
It claimed that women's faces were easier to read than men's faces, with greater success in matching traits.
Glasgow University's Dr Rob Jenkins said: "We did not expect there to be such a difference between the sexes."
Dr Jenkins, a specialist in the psychology of social interaction, devised the study, along with Professor Richard Wiseman, of the University of Hertfordshire.
Dr Jenkins said the research should pave the way for further investigations into the link between a person's character and their appearance.
"Past studies have shown that people do associate facial appearance with certain personality traits and that our snap judgements of faces really do suggest a kernel of truth about the personality of their owner," he said.
................... More than 6,500 visitors to the
[New Scientist]site attempted to identify the lucky, humorous, religious and trustworthy faces. From this, it appeared that women's faces were more transparent, or "gave more away", than men's faces.
A total of 70% of people were able to correctly identify the lucky face and 73% correctly identified the religious one.
Source.
