: All methods carried out in Study 1 were reviewed by the IRB of Northwestern University (Synthetic Aperture Personality Assessment Project; Reference STU00202975). The study was determined to be exempt as it did not qualify as human subjects’ research.
Approval for Study 2 was obtained from Cambridge Judge Business School Departmental Ethics Review Group (Reference: 17/023).
Study 3 was approved by the Joint Ethics Committee of Departments 12-16 of TU Dortmund University (Reference: 2017-4).
The work of Fang Luo was supported by the Research on Key Technologies of Social Emergency Service System, National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2018YFC0810600). The work by Daniela Gühne and Philipp Doebler was supported by grant DO 1789/1-1 from the German Research Foundation (DFG). The work of Luning Sun was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, UK (ESRC; Grant No. ES/L016591/1).