ABSTRACT
Our faces convey a lot of information about our social identities. From looking at someone’s face, we can infer some details of their ethnic background and decide whether they seem old or young, male or female, attractive or unattractive, friendly or unapproachable, intelligent or unintelligent, and so on. Some of these inferences (such as age or sex) can be reasonably accurate, while others (such as approachability or intelligence) often turn out to be really wide of the mark, yet we all carry on making them.
