Why do we respond to others-both to their physical appearances
and to their personalities? What are the social influences on face
perception? Current research perspectives on physical appearance by
distinguished behavioral scientists from around the world were
brought together in a special issue of Current Psychology and are
offered here in a useful compendium.
Chapters and contributors include: "Assessing the State of
Organizational Safety-Culture or Climate?" Kathryn J. Mearns and
Rhona Flin; "Why Did It Happen to Me? Social Cognition Processes in
Adjustment and Recovery from Criminal Victimization and Illness" by
Malcolm D. MacLeod; "What's in a Name, What's in a Place? The Role
of Verbal Labels in Distinct Cognitive Tasks" by J.B. Deegowski,
D.M. Parker, and P. George; "On Disregarding Deviants: Exemplar
Typicality and Person Perception" by C. Neil Macrae, Galen V.
Bodenhausen, Alan B. Milne, and Luigi Castelli; "Mood in Chronic
Disease: Questioning the Answers" by Marie Johnston; "The Emotional
Impact of Faces (but not Names): Face Specific Changes in Skin
Conductance Responses to Familiar and Unfamiliar People" by Hadyn
D. Ellis, Angela H. Quayle, and Andrew W. Young; "Average Faces are
Average Faces" by Jim Pollard, John Shepard, and Jean Shepard;
"Computer Graphic Studies of the Role of Facial Similarity in
Judgments of Attractiveness" by I.S. Penton-Voak, D.I. Perrett, and
J.W. Peirce; "One Extreme or the Other, or Perhaps the Golden Mean?
Issues of Spatial Resolution in Face Processing" by Dennis M.
Parker and Nicholas P. Costen; "The Impact of Character Attribution
on Composite Production: A Real World Effect?" by Graham Davies and
Heidi Oldman; "Repetition Priming of Face Gender Judgments: An
Instance Based Explanation" by Dennis C. Hay.
Validation in Psychology will benefit students, researchers, and
practitioners of psychology, criminology, sociology, and experts in
organizational behavior who are concerned with the impact of
physical appearance on health psychology, crime, organizational
safety, and above all, person perception.
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