Facing Fate: Estimates of Longevity from Facial Appearance and their Underlying Cues (ICPSR 36046)

Version Date: Feb 6, 2015

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Principal Investigator(s):
Nicholas Rule, University of Toronto

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36046.v1

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Summary

We examined whether life longevity could be predicted from facial appearance. We asked participants to view headshots from a 1923 university yearbook and to estimate how long they thought each person lived. We then tested whether social judgments related to actual longevity (wealth, health, personality, etc.) related to participants' judgments of longevity.

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Rule, Nicholas. Facing Fate: Estimates of Longevity from Facial Appearance and their Underlying Cues . Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2015-02-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36046.v1

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Geographic Coverage

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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2011-07 -- 2011-12

Date of Collection

2011-07-04 -- 2011-12-12
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Sample

Participants completed the task online, they therefore represent a random sampling of adults in the United States.

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

Adults living in the United States.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

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Original Release Date

2015-02-06

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2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Rule, Nicholas. Facing Fate: Estimates of Longevity from Facial Appearance and their Underlying Cues . ICPSR36046-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2015-02-06. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36046.v1
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