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Reading Faces: Window To The Soul?
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Do we read character in faces? What information do faces actually provide? Why do we associate certain facial qualities with particular character traits? What are the social and psychological consequences of reading character in faces? Zebrowitz unmasks the face and provides the first systematic, scientific account of our tendency to judge people by their appearance.
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Paperback, 288 pages
Published
June 6th 1997
by Westview Press
(first published June 5th 1997)
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I had been running my mouth about how a person's face reflects aspects of his or her personality for quite awhile and this book largely confirmed what I had been saying. However, it suffers from the same pitfall that all of these summary-of-studies books do: it skims the surface of suspect studies in an attempt to find meaningful trends, all the while leaving question marks in the wake; and those question marks begin to add up. Nonetheless, this is a good book summarizing the scientific evidence
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Compare this fascinating but shocking analysis of the power of attractive faces to Lucy Grealy's memoir of deformity.
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