The human face appears to play a key role in signaling social intentions and usually people
form reliable and strong impressions on the basis of someone's facial appearance …

Existing trust research has disproportionately focused on what makes people more or less
trusting, and has largely ignored the question of what makes people more or less …

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 …

The capacity to trust wisely is a critical facilitator of success and prosperity, and it has been
conjectured that people of higher intelligence are better able to detect signs of …

Across two studies, we asked whether people trust too much or too little, relative to what an
economic analysis would suggest. In the trust game paradigm, participants decided whether …

Trust is a particularly under-studied aspect of social relationships in older age. In the current
study, young (n= 35) and older adults (n= 35) completed a series of one-shot social …

Abstract Using the repeated Trust Game, we investigated how first impressions and
experience affect trusting dispositions, beliefs, and behaviors. As in previous research …

We review research suggesting that decisions to trust strangers may not depend on
economic dynamics as much as emotional and social ones. Classic treatments of trust …

An important unanswered question in the empirical literature on trust is whether trusting
begets trustworthiness. In two experimental games, with Japanese and American …

Although trust is a key aspect of social behavior, individual differences in trust are not yet
sufficiently understood. Addressing this issue, the present study investigated the link …