Recognising faces but not traits: accurate personality judgment from faces is unrelated to superior face memory

Liam Paul Satchell; Josh P. Davis; Eglantine Julle-Danière; Nina Tupper; Paul Marshman

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2019.02.002

Recognising faces but not traits: accurate personality judgment from faces is unrelated to superior face memory

Liam Paul Satchell, Josh P. Davis, Eglantine Julle-Danière, Nina Tupper, Paul Marshman

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It is suggested that accurate personality judgments of faces are driven by a morphological ‘kernel of truth’ from face shape. We hypothesised that this relationship could lead to those with better face identification ability being better at personality judgments. We investigated the relationship between face memory, face matching, Big Five personality traits, and accuracy in recognising Big Five personality traits from 50 photographs of unknown faces. In our sample (n = 792) there was overall good (but varying) face memory and personality judgment accuracy. However, there was convincing evidence that these two skills do not correlate (all r < 0.06). We also replicate the known relationship between extraversion and face memory ability in the largest sample to date.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	49-58
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Research in Personality
Volume	79
Early online date	13 Feb 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2019.02.002
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2019

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