 What is one halo effect of physiognomy?
Through a study of 1,856 images ("controlled for race, gender, age and facial expression") they claim to have established the validity of "automated, face-induced inference on criminality, despite the historical controversy surrounding this line of enquiry." Theories of physiognomy, however, would persist beyond the Renaissance. Physiognomy ultimately stems from what Alexander Todorov, professor of psychology at Princeton University, calls an 'overgeneralisation hypothesis'. "People," he wrote, "use easily accessible facial information (eg an expression such as a smile, cues to gender and ethnic group) to make social attributions congruent with this information (eg a nice person)."
 It has created a bias that favors more attractive people
 It has morphed to become something more credible than its original version  It has morphed to become something less credible than its original version  It has created a trend that imprisons innocent people  It has created a bias that favors more attractive people