Four dimensions characterize attributions from faces using a representative set of English trait words

Chujun Lin; Umit Keles; Ralph Adolphs

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-25500-y

Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Four dimensions characterize attributions from faces using a representative set of English trait words

Chujun Lin,
Umit Keles,
Ralph Adolphs

Affiliations

Chujun Lin: Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Umit Keles: Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Ralph Adolphs: Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25500-y
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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People form impressions about others from seeing their faces, and use many words to describe those impressions. Here, using ratings of 100 representatively sampled white adult faces on a large set of traits, the authors show that trait impressions from faces can be summarized by four psychological dimensions.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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