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Facial Cues (facial + cue)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Psychology	40%

Selected Abstracts

A face with a cue: exploring the inevitability of person categorization

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 5 2007
Douglas Martin
Recent research has explored the dynamics of categorical thinking, with debate centering on the putative automaticity of this process. In a further investigation of this topic, the current inquiry assessed the influence of critical category-cueing facial features on overt (i.e., category identification) and covert (i.e., category priming) measures of sex categorization. The results revealed that when a critical sex-specifying facial cue (i.e., hairstyle) was present, priming effects emerged even under suboptimal processing conditions (i.e., facial blurring). When this cue was absent, however, priming no longer occurred. Interestingly, category identification was largely unimpeded by feature removal or facial blurring. Taken together, these results underscore the efficiency of categorical thinking and the importance of task objectives and feature-based processing in person perception. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Influence of infant and child facial cues of low body weight on adults' ratings of adoption preference, cuteness, and health

INFANT MENTAL HEALTH JOURNAL, Issue 5 2005
Anthony A. Volk
Infant and child facial cues have been shown to influence decisions and perceptions associated with parental care in adults. Low body weight reflects health problems in infants and children; therefore, facial cues associated with low body weight may influence adult cognitive processes associated with parental care and investment. Facial images of infants and children were digitally manipulated to simulate cues of low body weight and presented to adults using a hypothetical adoption paradigm. Participants' ratings of adoption preference, cuteness, and health were significantly lower for the digitally manipulated low body weight facial images than their unaltered counterparts. These findings support the hypothesis that facial cues of poor health negatively influence adults' responses to infants and children. [source]

Silent talker: a new computer-based system for the analysis of facial cues to deception

APPLIED COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 6 2006
Janet Rothwell
This paper presents the development of a computerised, non-invasive psychological profiling system, ,Silent Talker', for the analysis of non-verbal behaviour. Nonverbal signals hold rich information about mental, behavioural and/or physical states. Previous attempts to extract individual signals and to classify an overall behaviour have been time-consuming, costly, biased, error-prone and complex. Silent Talker overcomes these problems by the use of Artificial Neural Networks. The testing and validation of the system was undertaken by detecting processes associated with ,deception' and ,truth'. In a simulated theft scenario thirty-nine participants ,stole' (or didn't) money, and were interviewed about its location. Silent Talker was able to detect different behaviour patterns indicative of ,deception' and ,truth' significantly above chance. For example, when 15 European men had no prior knowledge of the exact questions, 74% of individual responses (,p,<,0.001) and 80% (,p,=,0.035) of interviews were classified correctly. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]