Amanda Hahn and colleagues at St Andrew's University in Fife, UK, used a heat - sensitive camera to map small changes of temperature in the faces of young heterosexual women while an experimenter touched them with an instrument they were told was
measuring skin colour (it wasn't).
By contrast, a second study provides each subject with a wide range of facial images designed specifically to evaluate different dimensions of facial recognition (
skin colour, hair
colour, ethnicity, facial shape, etc.), each subject is tested over the full range of recall time periods, and a blood sample is taken from which serum concentrations of several well - described stress hormones are
measured.