People rapidly and automatically evaluate faces along many social dimensions. Here, we
focus on judgments of trustworthiness, which approximate basic valence evaluation of faces …

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 …

People evaluate a stranger's trustworthiness from their facial features in a fraction of a
second, despite common advice “not to judge a book by its cover.” Evaluations of …

We show that developmental prosopagnosics with severe impairments in both memory for
faces and perception of facial identity can make normal trustworthiness judgements of novel …

By adulthood, people judge trustworthiness from appearances rapidly and reliably.
However, we know little about these judgments in children. This novel study investigates the …

The amygdala is involved in the evaluation of novel stimuli, including faces. We examined
whether the amygdala is engaged during the evaluation of emotionally neutral faces along …

It has been proposed that two major axes, dominance and trustworthiness, characterize the
social dimensions of face evaluation. Whether evaluation of faces on these social …

Previous studies have shown that trustworthiness judgments from facial appearance
approximate general valence evaluation of faces (Oosterhof & Todorov, 2008) and are made …

Inferences of others' social traits from their faces can influence how we think and behave
towards them, but little is known about how perceptions of people's traits may affect …

It is widely assumed among psychologists that people spontaneously form trustworthiness
impressions of newly encountered people from their facial appearance. However, most …