Talamas paper on subtle facial cues to perceived intelligence in JEP:G

One of the papers form Sean’s PhD has been accepted in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.  The paper “Eyelid-Openness and Mouth Curvature Influence Perceived Intelligence Beyond Attractiveness” explores the impact of these subtle facial cues and perceived intelligence controlling for the well-known attractiveness halo.  One of the studies dealt with the effect of tiredness … Read more

Blinded by Beauty: Talamas article on accuracy of perceived intelligence in PLoS One

One of Sean’s studies from his PhD has formed the basis of a paper published recently in PLoS One.  Sean’s focus has been on different dimensions of perceived intelligence.  In this article we examined perceptions of conscientiousness, perceived academic performance and perceived intelligence predicting actual academic performance based on facial features, controlling for the attractiveness … Read more

Perceiver intelligence and the halo effect: Talamas article published in PAID

The third leg of Sean’s PhD has been published in Personality and Individual Differences (PAID).  In this article we found that the perceiver’s own intelligence impacts upon their endorsement of the attractiveness halo – that is the more they see other faces that are attractive as also being intelligent. Talamas, S. N., Mavor, K. I., … Read more

Sean Talamas PhD completed

Sean Talamas has submitted his PhD (Co-supervised by Dave Perrett and Ken Mavor) on various aspects of perceived intelligence and the attractiveness Halo. The thesis demonstrates that malleable facial cues can influence perceptions of intelligence, identifies individual differences that influence endorsement of the intelligence-attractiveness halo, and reveals the limiting effects of the attractiveness halo on … Read more