APS

29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

Identifying Causes of Person Perception Inaccuracy Using a Computational Approach

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · Social

  • Poruz Khambatta
    Stanford University
  • Michal Kosinski
    Stanford University

Abstract

Using a neural network, we explore why people make mistakes when inferring personality from faces. Rather than simply caused by a lack of diagnostic facial cues, our limited foresight when predicting the minds of strangers appears partly driven by our limited insight into the minds of those we already know.

Social Cognition

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