Previous research suggests that the influence of facial trustworthiness is irresistible in the
process of making judgments even when relevant behavioral information is available. This …

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 …

People quickly infer trustworthiness from faces and use it to guide judgments and behaviors.
Past research has suggested that face information is too powerful to be overridden by …

People readily (but often inaccurately) attribute traits to others based on faces. While the
details of attributions depend on the language available to describe social traits …

During social interactions, we use available information to guide our decisions, including
behaviour and emotional displays. In some situations, behaviour and emotional displays …

Social decision making is guided by the ability to intuitively judge personal attributes,
including analysis of facial features to infer the trustworthiness of others. Although the neural …

Trust is a crucial foundation of human society, dynamically changing along with
interpersonal interactions. Previous research suggested that both gaze behaviors and …

First impressions of social traits, such as trustworthiness or dominance, are reliably
perceived in faces, and despite their questionable validity they can have considerable real …

Researchers have long been interested in how social evaluations are made based upon first
impressions of faces. It is also important to consider the level of agreement we see in such …

When interacting with strangers, people tend to draw inferences pertaining to the strangers'
personality traits based on their facial information, which leads to differential feelings of trust …