FACIAL MATURITY AND DAILY SOCIAL-INTERACTION

Although facial maturity has been repeatedly documented to influence f irst impressions, little is known about its impact on daily social exp erience. To address this, 114 people kept diaries of their social enco unters for 1 week. Descriptions of a total of 5,106 interactions were collected. Baby-faced men reported less control and influence over opp osite-sex interactions than did more mature-faced men. In addition, fa cial babyishness was positively related to the amount of intimacy and disclosure that characterized men's interactions. Facial maturity was not an especially strong predictor of women's social experience. Altho ugh mature-faced men were further revealed to be more extraverted than baby-faced men, the relations between facial maturity and social expe rience were independent of such personality differences.