Personality judgments from natural and composite facial images: More evidence for a "kernel of truth" in social perception

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I Like What She’s #Endorsing: The Impact of Female Social Media Influencers’ Perceived Sincerity, Consumer Envy, and Product Type (2020, background): “…that personality is embedded in one’s physical appearance; in other words, observers can accurately judge a person’s personality based only on full-body photographs (Naumann et al. 2009), as well as facial information provided in a photo without any behavioral cues (Penton-Voak et al. 2006).”
Facing a psychopath: Detecting the dark triad from emotionally-neutral faces, using prototypes from the Personality Faceaurus (2011, background): “1, it also includes prototypes of the Big 5 personality traits (see also: Little & Perrett, 2007; Penton-Voak et al., 2006), several personality disorders, and major sexual strategies.”
Social attributions from faces: determinants, consequences, accuracy, and functional significance. (2015, background): “The variation may seem surprising in light of studies finding accurate judgments of extroversion from facial images (e.g., Borkenau & Liebler 1992, Borkenau et al. 2009, Penton-Voak et al. 2006).”