How you look is who you are: the appearance reveals character lay theory increases support for facial profiling

• Main Authors: Madan, Shilpa, Savani, Krishna, Johar, Gita Venkataramani
• Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Business::Management; Lay Theories; Facial Profiling
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/161783
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

People are excessively confident that they can judge others' characteristics from their appearance. This research identifies a novel antecedent of this phenomenon. Ten studies (N = 2,967, 4 preregistered) find that the more people believe that appearance reveals character, the more confident th...