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. 2020 May 22;10:8487. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-65358-6

Table 1.

Effect sizes found in studies that used integral facial images to predict personality traits.

Nphoto Nrater Effect size, r
E A C N O
Artificial feature manipulation
Walker & Vetter, 2016, Study 3 30 160 0.23 0.27 0.12 0.36 0.24
Composite facial images
Little & Perrett, 2007 20 40 0.19 0.06 0.17 0.11 0.10
Penton-Voak et al., Study 2 20 42 0.56 0.24 0.63 0.37 0.47
Kramer & Ward, 2010 20 131 0.78 0.37 0.06 0.28 −0.11
Realistic photographs
Penton-Voak et al. 2006, Study 1 294 10 0.24 −0.01 0.06 0.17 0.18
Qui et al. 2015, Selfies 123 8 0.02 0.06 0.10 0.07 0.21
Borkenau et al., 2009 149 24 0.34 0.04 0.16 0.07 0.11
Naumann et al., 2009, Standard 123 6 0.39 −0.11 −0.03 0.17 0.17
Naumann et al., 2009, Spontaneous 123 6 0.42 0.20 0.12 0.18 0.35
Machine learning models
Hu et al., 2017, Male faces 405 n/a 0.16 0.11 0.21 0.15 0.14
Hu et al., 2017, Female faces 429 n/a 0.11 0.02 −0.06 −0.06 0.00

Note: Nphoto – number of stimulus faces, Nrater – number of human raters per photograph, E – extraversion, A – agreeableness, C – conscientiousness, N – neuroticism, O – openness. Effect sizes are given as reported by the authors where available or calculated using meta-analytic formulae26.