For your local eyes only: Culture-specific face typicality influences perceptions of trustworthiness

C Sofer, R Dotsch, M Oikawa, H Oikawa… - …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent findings show that typical faces are judged as more trustworthy than atypical faces.
However, it is not clear whether employment of typicality cues in trustworthiness judgment …

Cross-cultural perception of trustworthiness: The effect of ethnicity features on evaluation of faces' observed trustworthiness across four samples

B Birkás, M Dzhelyova, B Lábadi, T Bereczkei… - Personality and …, 2014 - Elsevier
People are able to recognize faces from their own ethnic group more easily than faces from
other ethnicities. Ethnicity information also easily activates perceptual biases; therefore, the …

Registered report: Social face evaluation: ethnicity-specific differences in the judgement of trustworthiness of faces and facial parts

I Schmid, Z Witkower, FM Götz, S Stieger - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Social face evaluation is a common and consequential element of everyday life based on
the judgement of trustworthiness. However, the particular facial regions that guide such …

Similarities and differences in Chinese and Caucasian adults' use of facial cues for trustworthiness judgments

F Xu, D Wu, R Toriyama, F Ma, S Itakura, K Lee - PLoS One, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background All cultural groups in the world place paramount value on interpersonal trust.
Existing research suggests that although accurate judgments of another's trustworthiness …

What is typical is good: The influence of face typicality on perceived trustworthiness

C Sofer, R Dotsch, DHJ Wigboldus… - Psychological …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
The role of face typicality in face recognition is well established, but it is unclear whether
face typicality is important for face evaluation. Prior studies have focused mainly on …

Trustworthy-looking face meets brown eyes

K Kleisner, L Priplatova, P Frost, J Flegr - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
We tested whether eye color influences perception of trustworthiness. Facial photographs of
40 female and 40 male students were rated for perceived trustworthiness. Eye color had a …

Advances in understanding the detectability of trustworthiness from the face: Toward a taxonomy of a multifaceted construct

JP Wilson, NO Rule - Current directions in psychological …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Researchers have recently shown increasing interest in assessments of trustworthiness,
devoting much attention to whether trustworthiness can be detected from a person's facial …

Racial prejudice affects representations of facial trustworthiness

RJ Hutchings, E Freiburger, M Sim… - Psychological …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
What makes faces seem trustworthy? We investigated how racial prejudice predicts the
extent to which perceivers employ racially prototypical cues to infer trustworthiness from …

Is trustworthiness lateralized in the face? Evidence from a trust game

DJ Carragher, NA Thomas, MER Nicholls - Laterality, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A turn of the head can be used to convey or conceal emotion, as the left side of
the face is more expressive than the right. As the left cheek moves more when smiling, the …

Trustworthiness perception is disrupted in artificial faces

B Balas, J Pacella - Computers in Human Behavior, 2017 - Elsevier
Computer-generated faces are increasingly prevalent in a range of settings. While the
quality of synthetic face appearance has increased dramatically, participants can usually …