Personality and Facial Features (very quick experiment)

[Amud]

Not really, these are computer generated faces, so they don't have a "personality". The "test" would be better with faces from real people.

shhh, we'll get to that later

[Albo Fire]

I'll go with second guy being more intelligent, introvert type due soft features, while first guy more or less strike me of an extrovert type of guy.

[Amud]

I'll go with second guy being more intelligent, introvert type due soft features, while first guy more or less strike me of an extrovert type of guy.

The second guy actually has more angular features, in case you're not noticing that.

[Hithaeglir]

None.
But i will pick the second individual just for the sake of it.

[Amud]

Bump, let's try to get at least a few more voted before I discuss the results.

[Amud]

Oops, I forgot to do the explanation for this. So, time to bump the thread.

Both pictures are composite images, made from faces of nine real people. The first composite is of 9 random people from a set of faces designed to be used for psychological studies. The second is of 9 people whom I personally know to be intelligent, introverted and eccentric.

And, it won the poll by a very significant margin, 26 to 5. This is very solid evidence that personality can be accurately determined based on facial features. The reason for this is that the second image has stronger Neanderthal features, which are instinctively recognized due to genetic memory.

[Hithaeglir]

the first one.

[Not a Cop]

Oops, I forgot to do the explanation for this. So, time to bump the thread.

Both pictures are composite images, made from faces of nine real people. The first composite is of 9 random people from a set of faces designed to be used for psychological studies. The second is of 9 people whom I personally know to be intelligent, introverted and eccentric.

And, it won the poll by a very significant margin, 26 to 5. This is very solid evidence that personality can be accurately determined based on facial features. The reason for this is that the second image has stronger Neanderthal features, which are instinctively recognized due to genetic memory.

Except for the bolded part i agree with you, here is result of Czech experement, i'm too lazy to look for a link to study, but here is picture with results

[Amud]

Except for the bolded part i agree with you, here is result of Czech experement, i'm too lazy to look for a link to study, but here is picture with results

I've seen that study. Some of the features it's picking up are of Neanderthal origin. However, that's not the entire story. It also seems like softer features are perceived as more intelligent, so the people with highest perceived intelligence would look like an extremely reduced, infantilized Neanderthal. At least, according to the average participant in that study. Personally, I think the people who look smartest to me are those with huge skulls, cranial ridges, bushy eyebrows, and highly angular features. The typical science genius look. It's pretty clear that the greatest geniuses tend to have archaic features.

[Amud]

the first one.

You're trying to be a contrarian, aren't you?


Honestly, I think that the people who voted for face #1 did so not because they actually believed it, but because instinctively they don't want phrenology to be true and felt that the best way to "make it not true" is to skew the results of my study.