Looking Smart and Looking Good: Facial Cues to Intelligence and their Origins

By L. Zebrowitz, Judith A. Hall, Nora A. Murphy, Gillian Rhodes. 2002

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Racism in the 21st century : an empirical analysis of skin color (2008, background): “Attractive faces are perceived as being indicative of intelligence, and facial beauty does, in fact, correlate with actual intelligence (Zebrowitz et al. 2002).”
Intelligence and physical attractiveness (2011, unknown): “Intelligence and physical attractiveness☆ Satoshi Kanazawa⁎”
The Contribution of Emotion Perceptions and Their Overgeneralizations to Trait Impressions (2003, background): “In addition, some research has found that facial appearance provides an accurate cue to particular social traits and intellectual capacities (Berry, 1990; Berry & Brownlow, 1989; Berry & Finch-Wero, 1993; Borkenau & Liebler, 1992, 1993; Funder & Colvin, 1988; Zebrowitz, Hall, & Murphy, 2002 ).”
Why Beautiful People Are More Intelligent. (2004, background): “T1. More beautiful people are more intelligent than less beautiful people Biddle & Hamermesh, 1998; Elder, 1969; Frieze et al., 1991; Furlow et al., 1997; Hamermesh & Biddle, 1994; Jackson et al., 1995 (meta-analysis); Langlois et al., 2000 (meta-analysis); Roszell et al., 1989; Zebrowitz et al., 2”
The advisor robot: tracing people's mental model from a robot's physical attributes (2006, background): “Increasing the voice s fundamental frequency reduced this effect.”
Avoiding the uncanny valley: robot appearance, personality and consistency of behavior in an attention-seeking home scenario for a robot companion (2008, background): “Zebrowitz et al. 2004 ), it is to be expected that human perceptions of robot social behavior will depend to a large extent on its appearance.”
A thin slice perspective on the accuracy of first impressions (2007, background): “For example, Zebrowitz, Hall, Murphy, and Rhodes (2002) found in a meta-analysis of published research that intelligence was accurately inferred from facial expressions, but the average of the individual perceivers’ correlations between inference and criterion was an arguably modest r D .19.”
Social Psychological Face Perception: Why Appearance Matters. (2008, unknown): “Like less attractive faces, more unsymmetrical faces and faces lower in averageness are perceived as less intelligent and healthy (Rhodes, Zebrowitz et al., 2001; Zebrowitz et al., 2002; Zebrowitz & Rhodes, 2004).”
Male facial masculinity influences attributions of personality and reproductive strategy (2006, background): “Health status and intelligence can be inferred to some degree from facial photographs (Kalick, Zebrowitz, Langlois, & Johnson, 1998; Zebrowitz, Hall, Murphy, & Rhodes, 2002 ), although the relationship between attractiveness and intelligence may be stronger for those below the median of attractiven”
Sensitivity to “Bad Genes” and the Anomalous Face Overgeneralization Effect: Cue Validity, Cue Utilization, and Accuracy in Judging Intelligence and Health (2004, methodology): “IQ scores used by Zebrowitz et al. (2002) to study participants in childhood, puberty, adolescence, and adulthood were taken from the IGS archive.”