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We identify people by their body, when face is no help
The Telegraph: When trying to recognise someone from far away or when their face is obscured, the brain uses information from a person’s body size and shape to figure out who it is. Scientists had
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Stop Making Eye Contact
New York Magazine: It’s always tough to determine the appropriate amount of time to hold someone’s gaze. Too short, and you risk seeming bored or distractible; too long, and you look like you might be
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Is Beauty in the Average or the Individual?
The beauty-in-averageness effect stems from research showing that a blended face, a morph of multiple individual faces, is generally rated as being more attractive than its individual component faces. But researchers Jamin Halberstadt, Piotr Winkielman
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Making eye contact can hurt your argument, study finds
The Washington Post: “Look at me when I’m talking to you!” If you’ve ever used that line during a disagreement, you might want to think again. Forcing eye contact when trying to change someone’s mind
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Identifying People by Their Bodies When Faces Are No Help
Every day we recognize friends, family, and co-workers from afar — even before we can distinctly see a face. New research reveals that when facial features are difficult to make out, we readily use information
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Eye Contact May Make People More Resistant to Persuasion
Making eye contact has long been considered an effective way of drawing a listener in and bringing him or her around to your point of view. But new research shows that eye contact may actually
