First impressions are long-lasting. This familiar phrase indicates one of the many reasons that studying people’s first impressions is critical for social psychologists. Any information about a person, from her physical properties to her nonverbal
The Guardian: To explore all this and more, Hannah Devlin speaks with the California Institute of Technology’s Professor Doris Tsao, whose recent mind-reading study on primates challenged a long-held view of the way the brain
People make rapid judgments about the characteristics of others based on their facial expressions. Although these first impressions may seem superficial, they have been found to predict legal, political, and financial outcomes. Research suggests that
