A study finds that people associate personality traits with faces. People thought to have similar personalities were viewed as looking alike; people thought to look alike were viewed as having similar personalities. The research holds a surprise for Vladimir Putin and Justin Bieber. Humans are so good at identifying faces that we see them in places where they do not exist, such as on the moon or Mars or in combinations of circles, line segments, and dots . It is a particularly useful skill for a social animal. Yet, how exactly we recognize faces and process them is not exactly known. For instance, the Thatcher effect shows that our brains do not simply accept sensory input when deciding what a normal face looks like. Now, a new study published in the journal Cognition shows that what we th
