Current research perspectives on physical appearance by distinguished behavioral scientists from around the world were brought together in a special issue of Current Psychology and are offered here in a useful compendium

Assessing the State of Organizational Safety - Culture or Climate?, Kathryn J. Mearns and Rhona Flin; Why Did It Happen to Me? Social Cognition Processes in Adjustment and Recovery from Criminal Victimization and Illness, Malcolm D. MacLeod; What's in a Name, What's in a Place? - the Role of Verbal Labels in Distinct Cognitive Tasks, J.B. Deegowski et al; On Disregarding Deviants - Exemplar Typicality and Person Perception, C. Neil Macrae et al; Mood in Chronic Disease -Questioning the Answers, Marie Johnston; The Emotional Impact of Faces (But Not Names) - Face Specific Changes in Skin Conductance Responses to Familiar and Unfamiliar People, Haydn D. Ellis et al; Average Faces are Average Faces, Jim Pollard et al; Computer Graphic Studies of the Role of Facial Similarity in Judgements of Attractiveness, I.S. Penton-Voak et al; One Extreme or the Other, or Perhaps the Golden Mean? Issues of Spatial Resolution in Face Processing, Dennis M. Parker and Micholas P. Costen; The Impact of Character Attribution on Composite Production - a Real World Effect?, Graham Davies and Heidi Oldman; Repetition Priming of Face Gender Judgements - an Instance Based Explanation, Dennis C. Hay. (Part Contents).