ArticleNature human behaviour2025
How trait impressions of faces shape subsequent mental state inferences.
Article in Nature human behaviour, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Trait judgements of faces using a task without word labels.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Cosmetic enhancement as social signaling: context-dependent effects on facial evaluation in China and the United Kingdom.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Investigating the Structure of Emotion: Tools, Pitfalls and Recommendations.Affective science · 2025Article
- Multimodal investigations of emotional face processing and social trait judgment of faces.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2024Review
- Advancing Naturalistic Affective Science with Deep Learning.Affective science · 2023Review
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Abstract
People form impressions of one another in a split second from faces. However, people also infer others' momentary mental states on the basis of context-for example, one might infer that somebody feels encouraged from the fact that they are receiving constructive feedback. How do trait judgements of faces influence these context-based mental state inferences? In this Registered Report, we asked participants to infer the mental states of unfamiliar people, identified by their neutral faces, under specific contexts. To increase generalizability, we representatively sampled all stimuli from inclusive sets using computational methods. We tested four hypotheses: that trait impressions of faces (1) are correlated with subsequent mental state inferences in a range of contexts, (2) alter the dimensional space that underlies mental state inferences, (3) are associated with specific mental state dimensions in this space and (4) causally influence mental state inferences. We found evidence in support of all hypotheses.
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