Perception and Judgment Lab

Selected Media Coverage

Print

How first impressions work against women. Chicago Booth Review, November 18, 2021

The racist history behind facial recognition. New York Times, July 11, 2019

The importance of first impressions. BMW.com, March 19, 2019

Gender bias sways how we perceive competence in faces. Science Daily, December 7, 2018

The mistakes you make in a meeting’s first milliseconds. The Wall Street Journal, January 30, 2018.

Our brains scan faces and tag them friend or foe. Times of Israel, December 21, 2017.

Friend or foe? How the unconscious mind picks out faces in a crowd. The Jerusalem Post, December 19, 2017.

The enigma of the face in forming first impressions. New Scientist, August 9, 2017

Vote for ugly. The New Yorker, July 19, 2017. 

The problem with taking people at face value. Financial Times, July 18, 2017.  

Review of Face Value. The Times, June 10, 2017

Face facts: Our first impressions are wrong. The Times, June 8, 2017.

The introverted face. The Atlantic, 2014.

How your looks betray your personality. The New Scientist, 2009.

How voters think. The New York Times, 2008.

Facing realities. Time magazine, 2006.

Face-off. The New Yorker, 2005.

What’s in that face? A candidate’s future. The New York Times, 2005.

Audio

David Letterman’s take on our research on rapid first impressions:

The original research was conducted by Willis & Todorov (2006). For follow-up studies, see Todorov et al. (2009) and Todorov et al. (2010).

Australian Broadcasting Company, All in the Mind, July 23, 2017

The American Scholar, Smarty Pants Podcast, July 13, 2017

The Two Mikes on talkSport, June 28, 2017

KCRW, Press Play, June 27, 2017

The Guardian, Science Weekly, June 16, 2017

WNYC, The Leonard Lopate Show, June 15, 2017

Wisconsin Public Radio, The Joy Cardin Show, June 15, 2017

BBC Radio 4, All in the Mind, June 6, 2017

Futureproof on Newstalk.fm, Ireland, June 3, 2017

BBC London, May 29, 2017

Monocle 24, May 29, 2017

Swiss Public Radio, 2014

NPR, Science Friday, 2007

Video

David Brooks discusses our lab research (“somebody at Princeton”) on the Colbert Report:

The original research was conducted by Todorov et al. (2005) and Ballew & Todorov (2007). For a review, see Olivola & Todorov (2010).

The Today Show, January 15, 2018

Big Think, 2017

Brain Games, National Geographic

Automatic Brain Documentary

ZDF info German TV