title: Social attributions from faces bias human choices.
abstract: Our success and well-being, as individuals and societies, depend on our ability to make wise social decisions about important interpersonal matters, such as the leaders we select and the individuals we choose to trust. Nevertheless, our impressions of people are shaped by their facial appearances and, consequently, so too are these social decisions. This article summarizes research linking facial morphological traits to important social outcomes and discusses various factors that moderate this relationship.
authors.affiliation: Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. olivola@cmu.edu
authors.forename: Christopher Y
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Olivola
authors.forename: Friederike
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Funk
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Todorov
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D005145:Face; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D011057:Politics; D011287:Prejudice / Q000523:psychology*; D066252:Sociological Factors; D035502:Trust