Who is the psychologist that did a study and said that facial features could indicate what a person is like??

for example he said something like ';if you have a small nose it means..... or if you have a facial deformtiy it means your a bad person. It was a long time ago.Who is the psychologist that did a study and said that facial features could indicate what a person is like??
Are you talking about Lombroso's Theory of the Born Criminal? Cesare Lombroso, ';The Criminal Man'; (1876). The born criminal can be identified by the possession of certain visible ';stigmatas.'; ie. asymmetry of the face or head, large monkey-like ears, large lips, receding chin, twisted nose, excessive cheek bones, long arms, excessive skin wrinkles, and extra fingers or toes.Who is the psychologist that did a study and said that facial features could indicate what a person is like??
Francis Galton did a lot of early work on this - interestingly he was also Charles Darwin's cousin - Galton even had a lab set up in london where people could come along and pay a penny to have their features analysed.
That stuff is lumped in with phrenology- bumps and mounds on your skull describe intellectual development. Yah, right.


I don't know the exact source, but it was simply based on incomplete data. There is some merit, tho, in current studies related to body language: walking gait, tension (hunched shoulders), social ease seen in fluid, coordinated motion.


Facial expressions, OTOH are a rich area of research, along with attention to pupil size (that's why pro poker players wear dark glasses), the kind of smile (wry or attractive)- very wide interest in this research. BTW, studies comparing left-right features of the same face have been accepted for decades. Try covering pictures of full facial features first left, then right: sometimes they look like entirely different people. e.g. George W. Bush.
GOD!
Aha! That's horrible...If you have a facial deformity it shouldn't mean you're a bad person :(
It's called physiognomy, and it was Lombroso, around the late 1800 and early 1900s


William Sheldon applied a similar theory to body types in the 1940s.





Both have been discredited, btw