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phys.org/news/2026-10-personality-uncovers-key-patterns.html

Judging faces without personality labels uncovers key patterns in first impressions

Caltech researchers had more than 3,000 people arrange faces by personality similarity, with no trait words or rating scales, and still found five dimensions of first impressions: approachability, warmth, competence, morality and youthfulness. Those dimensions matched historical word-rating data well, though the second experiment also showed prominent effects of racial stereotypes.

— via Phys.org


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