<p>These studies investigated the abilities of participants to guess peoples' personalities from photos of their faces.</p>

<p>Extraverts' faces were judged as more extraverted by participants.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Ian S. Penton-Voak, Nicholas Pound, Anthony C. Little, and David I.
  Perrett(2006). Personality Judgments from Natural and Composite Facial
  Images: More Evidence For A “Kernel Of Truth” In Social Perception.
  Social Cognition: Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 607-640. 
  <a href="https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2006.24.5.607" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2006.24.5.607</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p>Participants performed better than chance at judging conscientiousness and agreeableness from composite faces.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Little, A. C. and Perrett, D. I. (2007), Using composite images to
  assess accuracy in personality attribution to faces. British Journal
  of Psychology, 98: 111-126. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1348/000712606X109648" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.1348/000712606X109648</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p>Participants could identify agreeableness, neuroticism and physical health from the faces.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Jones, A. L., Kramer, R. S. S., and Ward, R. (2012). Signals of
  personality and health: the contributions of facial shape, skin
  texture, and viewing angle. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform.
  38, 1353–1361. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027078" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027078</a></p>
</blockquote>

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Can you please give a rundown of the correlations found in each of the papers?  This enables others to go directly to any paper determined by the correlation they are interested in
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<p>Сorrelation Big Five and with facial features (static photo)
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/uUmY9.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/uUmY9.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

<p>Hu, S., Xiong, J., Fu, P., Qiao, L., Tan, J., Jin, L., &amp; Tang, K. (2017). Signatures of personality on dense 3D facial images. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 73. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00071-5" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00071-5</a></p>

<p>Penton-Voak, I. S., Pound, N., Little, A. C., &amp; Perrett, D. I. (2006). Personality Judgments from Natural and Composite Facial Images: More Evidence For A “Kernel Of Truth” In Social Perception. Social Cognition, 24(5), 607–640. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2006.24.5.607" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2006.24.5.607</a></p>

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<p>For instance is it possible to determine with some degree of accuracy if a person is ranks high in openness to new ideas by some photos of the person? </p>

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Are personality characteristics correlated with certain underlying features of the facial expressions of a person?
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# Are personality characteristics correlated with certain underlying features of the facial expressions of a person?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-07-07)

For instance is it possible to determine with some degree of accuracy if a person is ranks high in openness to new ideas by some photos of the person?

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2019-07-10. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

These studies investigated the abilities of participants to guess peoples' personalities from photos of their faces.

Extraverts' faces were judged as more extraverted by participants.

> Ian S. Penton-Voak, Nicholas Pound, Anthony C. Little, and David I.
> Perrett(2006). Personality Judgments from Natural and Composite Facial
> Images: More Evidence For A “Kernel Of Truth” In Social Perception.
> Social Cognition: Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 607-640.
> <https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2006.24.5.607>

Participants performed better than chance at judging conscientiousness and agreeableness from composite faces.

> Little, A. C. and Perrett, D. I. (2007), Using composite images to
> assess accuracy in personality attribution to faces. British Journal
> of Psychology, 98: 111-126. <https://doi.org/10.1348/000712606X109648>

Participants could identify agreeableness, neuroticism and physical health from the faces.

> Jones, A. L., Kramer, R. S. S., and Ward, R. (2012). Signals of
> personality and health: the contributions of facial shape, skin
> texture, and viewing angle. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform.
> 38, 1353–1361. <https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027078>

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: Can you please give a rundown of the correlations found in each of the papers?  This enables others to go directly to any paper determined by the correlation they are interested in  

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### Answer by username_3 on 2019-07-12. Score: 1

Сorrelation Big Five and with facial features (static photo)
[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/uUmY9.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/uUmY9.png)

Hu, S., Xiong, J., Fu, P., Qiao, L., Tan, J., Jin, L., & Tang, K. (2017). Signatures of personality on dense 3D facial images. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 73. <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00071-5>

Penton-Voak, I. S., Pound, N., Little, A. C., & Perrett, D. I. (2006). Personality Judgments from Natural and Composite Facial Images: More Evidence For A “Kernel Of Truth” In Social Perception. Social Cognition, 24(5), 607–640. <https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2006.24.5.607>


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