Face Value: The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions

Face Value (Princeton University Press) is an accessibly written overview of Princeton psychology professor Alexander Todorov’s extensive work on facial features and first impressions. The troubling, surprising, and astounding facts surrounding his work include evidence that we make judgments about a person in 1/10 of a second and we like “typical” faces and dislike others. The book includes experiments in the text so that readers can test their own impressions.