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tacita's review against another edition
5.0
Incredibly well researched, with every possible proposition brought up, reviewed with evidence from other studies, and clearly supported or refuted.
The one question that felt unanswered by the end was; if split-second judgments according to a glimpse of a face are very consistent across people, yet are almost invariably completely inaccurate, and wouldn’t have been very useful to early humans, what is it that is causing/leading to such consistent identifications of certain face types looking “competent” “dominant” or “trustworthy”? Even an acknowledgement of that question with a clearer admission that we don’t know why would have been nice.
However, this is a minor nitpick, and not a question I would have been equipped to ask before reading this book!
The one question that felt unanswered by the end was; if split-second judgments according to a glimpse of a face are very consistent across people, yet are almost invariably completely inaccurate, and wouldn’t have been very useful to early humans, what is it that is causing/leading to such consistent identifications of certain face types looking “competent” “dominant” or “trustworthy”? Even an acknowledgement of that question with a clearer admission that we don’t know why would have been nice.
However, this is a minor nitpick, and not a question I would have been equipped to ask before reading this book!
hahn2read's review against another edition
5.0
This book is accessible and interesting for those outside of the field of face perception, and a helpful, informative resource to those within the field.
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