Satchall, Liam Paul, Davis, Josh P. ORCID: 0000-0003-0017-7159, Julle-Danière, Eglantine, Tupper, Nina and Marshman, Paul (2019) Recognising faces but not traits: Accurate personality judgment from faces is unrelated to superior face memory. Journal of Research in Personality, 79. pp. 49-58. ISSN 0092-6566 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2019.02.002)

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Abstract

It is suggested that accurate personality judgments of faces are driven by a morphological ‘kernel of truth’ from face shape. We hypothesised that this relationship could lead to those with better face identification ability being better at personality judgments. We investigated the relationship between face memory, face matching, Big Five personality traits, and accuracy in recognising Big Five personality traits from 50 photographs of unknown faces. In our sample (n = 792) there was overall good (but varying) face memory and personality judgment accuracy. However, there was convincing evidence that these two skills do not correlate (all r < .06). We also replicate the known relationship between extraversion and face memory ability in the largest sample to date.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Personality judgment; Kernel of truth; Face memory; Face perception
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > Applied Psychology Research Group Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > School of Human Sciences (HUM)
Last Modified:	14 Feb 2021 01:38
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/22995

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