Reading Faces

Window To The Soul?

Leslie Zebrowitz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-32013-3 (ISBN)

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This book provides the systematic, scientific account of people's tendency to judge people by their appearance and not by face. It offers an in-depth discussion of two appearance qualities that influence people's impressions of others—"baby-faceness" and "attractiveness".

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 b

Leslie A. Zebrowitz is Manuel Yellen Professor of Social Relations and professor of psychology at Brandeis University.

Preface -- Judging a Book by Its Cover -- What's in a Face? -- The Bases of Reading Faces -- A Baby's Face Is Disarming -- The Boons and the Banes of a Babyface -- Analyzing Attractiveness -- The Advantages of Attractiveness -- Formative Faces and Pulchritudinous Personalities -- Phasing Out Face Effects -- Unmasking the Face

Erscheinungsdatum	30.09.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-367-32013-4 / 0367320134
ISBN-13	978-0-367-32013-3 / 9780367320133
Zustand	Neuware