A real smile is almost impossible to fake, and almost everyone can tell. You have felt the difference without naming it. Some smiles warm a room and some just move […]

Scroll through photographs from the 1800s and almost nobody is smiling. The faces are solemn, stiff and a little severe, as if the whole century was in a bad mood. […]

The most attractive face in a crowd is often the least unusual one. It sounds backwards. We tend to imagine beauty as something rare and striking, a face unlike any […]

Fairness would like appearance to stay out of the office, but it rarely does. We would prefer to believe that work is judged on work. Decades of economic research say […]

A stranger has judged your face before you have said a word. Long before a handshake or a greeting, the brain has already decided whether it likes what it sees. […]

We assume a good looking person is also a good person, and we do it without noticing. Show most people a photograph of an attractive stranger and they will quietly […]

A face can be too human for comfort, and that is not a figure of speech. There is a point where something almost human stops feeling charming and starts feeling […]

Some people look annoyed even when they feel perfectly calm. You have met a face like this, or you own one. At rest it seems to signal irritation, coldness or […]