The former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art examines the world of art forgery, from ancient times to the present, sharing anecdotes about some of the costliest, most embarrassing forgeries ever, as well as the motives of the fakers.

How much can it affect to want to meet someone? Idealization to a person is powerful and unpredictable. Will he be able to fulfill the expectations, which for years has been created on the girl? Allan Estrada is a man who had just lost his parents, he thought he would never be able to trust anyone, he had been in charge of a millionaire company and he had no idea how to handle it. His luck changed when he met Antonio, who supported him and helped him out of the shadows, and when he began to tell him about his youngest daughter, he was interested in meeting the girl. Only she did not make it easy.

Second [and final] part of the False Impressions story. A month has passed after that terrible moment. Everyone has gone their own way in an attempt to overcome their pain. The family has been separated because of that horrible incident, and the wound is still open and full of pain. Can Emma and Allan be happy together?

The scientific story of first impressions—and why the snap character judgments we make from faces are irresistible but usually incorrect We make up our minds about others after seeing their faces for a fraction of a second—and these snap judgments predict all kinds of important decisions. For example, politicians who simply look more competent are more likely to win elections. Yet the character judgments we make from faces are as inaccurate as they are irresistible; in most situations, we would guess more accurately if we ignored faces. So why do we put so much stock in these widely shared impressions? What is their purpose if they are completely unreliable? In this book, Alexander Todorov, one of the world's leading researchers on the subject, answers these questions as he tells the story of the modern science of first impressions. Drawing on psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, computer science, and other fields, this accessible and richly illustrated book describes cutting-edge research and puts it in the context of the history of efforts to read personality from faces. Todorov describes how we have evolved the ability to read basic social signals and momentary emotional states from faces, using a network of brain regions dedicated to the processing of faces. Yet contrary to the nineteenth-century pseudoscience of physiognomy and even some of today's psychologists, faces don't provide us a map to the personalities of others. Rather, the impressions we draw from faces reveal a map of our own biases and stereotypes. A fascinating scientific account of first impressions, Face Value explains why we pay so much attention to faces, why they lead us astray, and what our judgments actually tell us.