ABSTRACT

This interdisciplinary overview integrates a variety of perspectives on the process and interpretation of faces as a major source of verbal and nonverbal communication. Written by authors from social, experimental, and cognitive psychology as well as from the dental sciences, Social and Applied Aspects of Perceiving Faces covers topics including normal variation in facial appearance and facial anomalies.

chapter 1|8 pages

Social and Applied Aspects of Face Perception

An Introduction

part II|90 pages

Psychosocial Aspects of Normal Variation in Facial Appearance

chapter 7|25 pages

The Perception of Facial Expression

Individual Regulation and Social Coordination

part III|51 pages

Perceiving Abnormal Faces