Recognising faces but not traits: Accurate personality judgment from faces is unrelated to superior face memory |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, University of Winchester, United Kingdom;2. Department of Psychology, Social Work and Counselling, University of Greenwich, United Kingdom;3. Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom;4. Department of Clinical Psychological Sciences, Maastricht University, Netherlands;5. Department of Sports and Exercise Science, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom;1. University of California, Irvine, United States;2. University of Arizona, United States;1. Department of Psychiatry, Center for Behavior Genetics of Aging, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA;2. Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, La Jolla, CA, USA;3. Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA;4. Institute for Behavior Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA;5. Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA;1. Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany;2. Department of Psychology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany;3. Psychology Program, Division of Science, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates;1. Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States;2. Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States;3. Department of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States;1. Center for Child and Family Success, Arizona State University, United States;2. Department of Psychology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, United States |
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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 < 0.06). We also replicate the known relationship between extraversion and face memory ability in the largest sample to date. |
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| Keywords: | Personality judgment Kernel of truth Face memory Face perception |
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