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Personality in faces: Implicit associations between appearance and personality

Alex Jones Orcid Logo, Jeremy Tree Orcid Logo, Robert Ward

European Journal of Social Psychology, Volume: 49, Issue: 3, Pages: 658 - 669

Swansea University Authors: Alex Jones Orcid Logo, Jeremy Tree Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1002/ejsp.2534

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How accurate are the spontaneous trait inferences made to faces? Here we measured implicit associations between facial appearance and personality traits, using faces conveying an objective appearance of Extraversion and Agreeableness. In the standard or “uncrossed” conditions of Experiment 1, we fou...

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Published in: European Journal of Social Psychology
ISSN: 00462772
Published: 2019
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title Personality in faces: Implicit associations between appearance and personality
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