[STUDY] Different photos of the same person leave wildly different first impressions
Princeton University just published brand new research that says multiple photos of the same person leave impressions equally as varied as those of entirely different people.
Slight variations in how an individual face is viewed can lead people to develop significantly different first impressions of that individual, according to research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
“Our findings suggest that impressions from still photos of individuals could be deeply misleading,” says psychological scientist and study author Alexander Todorov of Princeton University.
Previous research has shown that people form first impressions about someone’s personality after viewing their face only briefly. But much of this research has rested on the assumption that an image offers a single, true representation of what a person is like.
The results of a series of studies conducted by Todorov and colleague Jenny Porter, of Columbia University, suggest that there really isn’t a static link between face and personality:
