Judging Others: Facial Asymmetry and the Five-Factor Model of Personality

Sexual selection and evolutionary theory are applied to physiognomy; deception and the adaptive value of possessing a ‘poker face’ are briefly discussed. Possible relationships of facial asymmetry to personality and demographic factors (including sexual orientation *) are examined. The impact of facial asymmetry, specifically hemifacial dominance, on impressions of personality is investigated; left hemiface dominance was positively correlated with the personality factor Extraversion. The results of personality impressions based on threedimensional stimulus faces are compared with those made based on two-dimensional stimulus faces *; stimulus images in the two-dimensional conditional were rated with greater consensus. (* Original to this study)