Post: 002
4 September 2013
This article is not about physiognomy but scientific approach to understand human emotions and expressions.
What does a face really tell us about someone's personality?
Professor David Perrett of the Perception Lab at St Andrews University has spent the best part of a decade trying to pin down the essence of facial attractiveness.
Perrett is using the most widely accepted model of human personality: the five-factor model. This consists of:- Openness to experience - creative, original, independent
- Conscientiousness - careful, hard-working, conscientious
- Extraversion - affectionate, talkative, sociable
- Agreeableness - forgiving, sympathetic, warm
- Neuroticism - nervous, worrying, highly strung
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