Background Many human interactions are built on trust, so widespread confidence in first
impressions generally favors individuals with trustworthy-looking appearances. However …

When encountering people, their faces are usually paired with their voices. We know that if
the face looks familiar, and the voice is high-pitched, the first impression will be positive and …

Objectives Trust is crucial for successful social interaction across the life span. Perceiver
age, facial age, and facial emotion have been shown to influence trustworthiness …

When we look at someone's face, we rapidly and automatically form robust impressions of
how trustworthy they appear. Yet while people's impressions of trustworthiness show a high …

Judgment of trustworthiness is an important social ability. Many studies show neural
activation differences to variations in face trustworthiness in brain reward regions. A …

Recognizing the role that facial appearance plays in guiding social interactions, here we
investigated how occlusions of the bottom-face region affect facial impressions of …

Trustworthiness is a quality that many people such as job candidates, coaches, mentors,
and even friends look for in others in everyday situations. Research has established that …

Trustworthiness is assumed to be processed implicitly from faces, despite the fact that the
overwhelming majority of research has only involved explicit trustworthiness judgements. To …

Impressions of trustworthiness based on facial cues influence many consequential
decisions, in spite of their (generally) poor accuracy. Here, we test whether reliance on facial …

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