 What terms best describes the author's attitude toward hunches of perceived criminality based on one's physical appearance?
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." In other words, they believe that they've found a relationship between looking like a criminal and actually being one. "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)."
 skeptical and dismissive
 skeptical and dismissive  neutral and hypothetical  incredulous and antagonistic  curious and imaginative