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Daniel N Albohn¹, Stefan Uddenberg¹, Alexander Todorov¹

¹Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.

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This study introduces a new method to visualize individual face perception, creating photorealistic images of personal social trait judgments. This advances understanding beyond group averages in face perception research.

Keywords:

StyleGAN data-driven face judgments face perception reverse correlation

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Computer Vision
Social Neuroscience

Background:

Traditional face perception research emphasizes group consensus.
Emerging evidence highlights significant individual differences in social trait judgments from faces.
Existing methods for modeling individual face perception yield low-fidelity visualizations, limiting generalizability.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and validate a novel paradigm for visualizing individual models of face perception.
To generate high-fidelity, photorealistic face image representations of individual mental models.
To explore individual differences in the perception of social traits like trustworthiness and masculinity.

Main Methods:

Leveraging state-of-the-art computer vision techniques.
Developing a new paradigm to create individualized face visualizations.
Conducting a proof-of-concept study on trustworthiness and masculinity judgments.

Main Results:

Successfully generated photorealistic face images reflecting individual mental representations.
Demonstrated the capability to visualize attribute intensity variations based on individual models.
Provided a proof-of-concept for trustworthiness and masculinity perception.

Conclusions:

The novel method offers a powerful tool for visualizing and understanding individual face perception.
High-fidelity visualizations enhance the generalizability and interpretability of individual models.
Future work will focus on further substantiating and expanding this visualization paradigm.