Deciding whether an unfamiliar person is trustworthy is one of the most important decisions in social environments. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to show that the …
B Balas, J Pacella - Computers in Human Behavior, 2017 - Elsevier
Computer-generated faces are increasingly prevalent in a range of settings. While the quality of synthetic face appearance has increased dramatically, participants can usually …
CP Said, SG Baron, A Todorov - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2009 - direct.mit.edu
Previous neuroimaging research has shown amygdala sensitivity to the perceived trustworthiness of neutral faces, with greater responses to untrustworthy compared with …
A Todorov - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
People routinely make various trait judgments from facial appearance, and such judgments affect important social outcomes. These judgments are highly correlated with each other …
Successful social interaction partly depends on appraisal of others from their facial appearance. A critical aspect of this appraisal relates to whether we consider others to be …
Abstract Evaluation of facial trustworthiness is often thought to be based on facial features and relatively immune to visual context. However, we rarely encounter an isolated facial …
Behavioral and neuroimaging studies suggest that the attribution of trustworthiness to faces relies on emotional and structural cues. Attributions happen spontaneously and very rapidly …
Previous research shows that the amygdala automatically responds to a face's trustworthiness when a face is clearly visible. However, it is unclear whether the amygdala …
People rapidly and automatically evaluate faces along many social dimensions. Here, we focus on judgments of trustworthiness, which approximate basic valence evaluation of faces …