Lies written all over their faces

23 September 2015 - 02:28
By ©The Daily Telegraph

One of the major qualms of internet daters is that it is easy to be duped by staged or edited profile pictures. But scientists at the University of Western Australia suggest the character of a woman can be assessed simply by looking at one small photograph of her face.Participants in the study, led by Dr Samantha Leivers, were given 17 cards, each with photos of two women on them, matched for age and ethnicity.

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