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'''Physiognomy''' is the former art and now science of deducing the predominant temper and other characteristic qualities of the mind from the outward appearance, especially from the features of the face, possibly including expression and movement across a brief amount of time.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0304418188900024</ref> | '''Physiognomy''' is the former art and now science of deducing the predominant temper and other characteristic qualities of the mind from the outward appearance, especially from the features of the face, possibly including expression and movement across a brief amount of time.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0304418188900024</ref> | ||
Physiognomy has gotten out of fashion due to its pseudoscientific history. With the machine learning hype, the field has regained some recognition, e.g. machine learning was used to detect peoples individual's behavioral tendencies via facial analysis, however it remains unclear whether the software can produce above-chance results based on facial or contextual cues.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/07/artificial-intelligence-can-tell-your-sexuality-politics-surveillance-paul-lewis</ref> More tangible results were also found as described below, but none of them have effect sizes large enough that one could assume them to be generally and reliably noticeable | Physiognomy has gotten out of fashion due to its pseudoscientific history. With the machine learning hype, the field has regained some recognition, e.g. machine learning was used to detect peoples individual's behavioral tendencies via facial analysis, however it remains unclear whether the software can produce above-chance results based on facial or contextual cues.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/07/artificial-intelligence-can-tell-your-sexuality-politics-surveillance-paul-lewis</ref> More tangible results were also found as described below, but none of them have effect sizes large enough that one could assume them to be generally and reliably noticeable. In academic terms none of them have a correlation range of R=0.40+. | ||
Generally people are treated based on how they look, and thus people learn to behave like how they look, creating a feedback loop. This is especially true for people with exotic looks. For example, Anton Lavey founder of the Satanic Church, always had an extremely evil, unconventionally attractive looking face. Anton (real name Howard) was always treated as being a literal handsome devil. Anton enjoyed this treatment and decided to mold his personality to his looks.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_LaVey</ref> Still, others may not be so accepting of how people treat them based on facial features. For example, a [[Pretty Boy|pretty boy]] may not enjoy being treated as a pretty boy and become more muscular in an attempt to be treated or seen as [[gigachad]]. | Generally people are treated based on how they look, and thus people learn to behave like how they look, creating a feedback loop. This is especially true for people with exotic looks. For example, Anton Lavey founder of the Satanic Church, always had an extremely evil, unconventionally attractive looking face. Anton (real name Howard) was always treated as being a literal handsome devil. Anton enjoyed this treatment and decided to mold his personality to his looks.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_LaVey</ref> Still, others may not be so accepting of how people treat them based on facial features. For example, a [[Pretty Boy|pretty boy]] may not enjoy being treated as a pretty boy and become more muscular in an attempt to be treated or seen as [[gigachad]]. | ||