Homepage photos: which cheek you show says something?

John Bohannon wrote Scientists’ Photos Reveal Their Inner Mr. Spock which I found funny in a science-curious kind of way. I hadn’t thought about the message you could be sending depending on which cheek you show. I had only noticed that people like to show more serious-looking photos of themselves and sometimes make it an obviously funny one. I have to say too that some of the pages from my co-workers don’t even show a picture. I guess that’s a more recent trend to make it more “professional” looking. Dunno.

I have to guess that dead center-looking pictures are rare. At least when you look at Rachael Jack’s one it stands out. It reminds me of passport pictures. For my new academic site I choose one that doesn’t look serious, I wanted a fun one! Plus I make it obvious which country I’m from ^^.

For some reason this doesn’t surprise me:

while English language and literature scholars showed the left cheek and engineers showed the right, psychologists were more difficult to categorize.