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 …

Visual stimuli with social-emotional relevance have been claimed to gain preferential access
to awareness. For example, recent studies used the breaking continuous flash suppression …

To test whether threatening visual information receives prioritized processing, many studies
have examined visual search for emotional schematic faces. Still, it has remained unclear …

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

During social interactions, individuals rapidly and automatically judge others' trustworthiness
on the basis of subtle facial cues. To investigate the behavioral and neural correlates of …

Using a composite-face paradigm, we show that social judgments from faces rely on holistic
processing. Participants judged facial halves more positively when aligned with trustworthy …

The fact that a mere glance makes it possible to extract a wealth of information about the
person being observed is testament to both the salience of the human face and the brain's …

Using a dynamic stimuli paradigm, in which faces expressed either happiness or anger, the
authors tested the hypothesis that perceptions of trustworthiness are related to these …

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 …

Behavioral studies show that people self-enhance across a number of domains, including
self-face recognition. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate …