Study Explores How Bodies Shape First Impressions
(WorldNews Health)

Nov. 15, 2018 Doctoral students Ying `Nina` Hu (left), Matthew Hill (second from left) and Connor Parde work with Dr. Alice O`Toole, professor of cognition and neuroscience and the Aage and Margareta Møller Professor, in O`Toole`s Face Perception Research Lab. The four recently studied how people form first impressions from body shapes. When you first meet someone, it`s likely that you judge their personality based on what little information you have. While what we infer from faces has been well studied, new research from The University of Texas at Dallas suggests that people also form first impressions from body shapes. Ying `Nina` Hu, a doctoral student in the School of Behavioral and...